Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
STEPHEN FRYIf 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 believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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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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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we’re not 100 per cent human, that we’re always letting ourselves down. We’re constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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