But happiness is no respecter of persons.
STEPHEN FRYThere’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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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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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there’s an email, most of the time there’s a letter, someone wants something of you.
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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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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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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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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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