My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
STEPHEN FRYYou can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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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 don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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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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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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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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