But happiness is no respecter of persons.
STEPHEN FRYI like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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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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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 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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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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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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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’d probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I’ve always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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