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.
STEPHEN FRYBut if one could go back in time, I’d love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who’s one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in ‘Rio Bravo’.
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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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 get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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 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.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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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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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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