"I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be."
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"The outfits come and go but there is a constant that I like about the catwalk model: the snotty expression."
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"If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening."
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"My eyebrows could do with a trim."
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"Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'"
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"I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough."
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"It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance."
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"Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended."
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"The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance."
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"An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist."
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"I couldn't really see the point of having lunch unless it started at 1:00 and ended a week later in Monte Carlo."
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"The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer."
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"About every four years, someone says to me, "I've got a friend who looks exactly like you." What can you say to this?"
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"The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it."
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"Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office."
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"Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world."
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"Obviously I am not bothered about men's fashion - is anyone, apart from Jonathan Ross?"
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"I like doing things I haven't learnt about yet. I've always been interested in art, and I love doing art."
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"I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic."
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"I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags."
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