I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
STEPHEN FRYSomehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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 don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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.
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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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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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