I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
STEPHEN FRYYou can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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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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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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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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 don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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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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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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