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.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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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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There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don’t offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
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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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