My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
STEPHEN FRYI like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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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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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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 need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.
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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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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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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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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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