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.
STEPHEN FRYIt is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there’s an email, most of the time there’s a letter, someone wants something of you.
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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there’s an email, most of the time there’s a letter, someone wants something of you.
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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.
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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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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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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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To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
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