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.
STEPHEN FRY- 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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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’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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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
STEPHEN FRYAn original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
STEPHEN FRYMy father was all brain and little heart.
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It was extremely important to show that Wilde’s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
STEPHEN FRYIt was extremely important to show that Wilde’s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
STEPHEN FRYBecause, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
STEPHEN FRYThere 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.
STEPHEN FRYI’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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
STEPHEN FRYHappiness is no respecter of persons.
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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.
STEPHEN FRYThere’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
STEPHEN FRYOh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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.
STEPHEN FRYI 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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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
STEPHEN FRYMy parents were marvelously educated people.
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