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.
STEPHEN FRYMoving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
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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.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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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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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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I’d probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I’ve always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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