There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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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You don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.
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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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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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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.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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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 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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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It was extremely important to show that Wilde’s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
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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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Moving 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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