An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
STEPHEN FRYAn original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we’re not 100 per cent human, that we’re always letting ourselves down. We’re constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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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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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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 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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it’s always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It’s a wonderful journey to take.
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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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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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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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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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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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