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.
STEPHEN FRYHaving 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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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 like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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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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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 am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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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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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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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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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