My father was all brain and little heart.
STEPHEN FRYI 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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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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 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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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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You 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.
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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 don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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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’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.
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They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we’re not 100 per cent human, that we’re always letting ourselves down. We’re constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.
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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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 don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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