Having been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
STEPHEN FRYHaving been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
STEPHEN FRYIt only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
STEPHEN FRYThat one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
STEPHEN FRYIt 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.
STEPHEN FRYI have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
STEPHEN FRYPhilosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
STEPHEN FRYNo, 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.
STEPHEN FRYPersonally, I’d never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
STEPHEN FRYI get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
STEPHEN FRYI 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.
STEPHEN FRYI’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.
STEPHEN FRYYou 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.
STEPHEN FRYI shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
STEPHEN FRYI think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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