There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
STEPHEN FRYThere 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 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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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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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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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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I 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.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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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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To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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 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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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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