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Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There's very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I'm lucky enough that it's reasonably mild in my case.

But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in 'Rio Bravo'.

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You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

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I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

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No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take.

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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

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An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

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I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

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It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.

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I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like.

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I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again.

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There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world.

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Happiness is no respecter of persons.

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I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.

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Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

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It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.

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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.

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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

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Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.

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I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.

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They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.

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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.

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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

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I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

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When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.

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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.

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But happiness is no respecter of persons.

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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.

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I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.

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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

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There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.

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