It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
STEPHEN FRYNo, 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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I’ve always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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 don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
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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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