I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
STEPHEN FRYBecause, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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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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To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
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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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You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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