Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
STEPHEN FRYI’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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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I’ve always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
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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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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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I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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