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.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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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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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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But 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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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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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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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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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