I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
STEPHEN FRYThere is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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