I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
STEPHEN FRYI 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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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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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
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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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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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