You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
STEPHEN FRYI 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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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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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 don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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I’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there’s just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
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I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.
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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don’t offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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