I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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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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Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
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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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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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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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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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I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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