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.
STEPHEN FRYSomehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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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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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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.
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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 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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