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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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"Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb."

"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 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."


"Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day."


"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."


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


"Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form."


"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."


"You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that."
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