I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
STEPHEN FRYI 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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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.
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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 get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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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 like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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 so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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Personally, I’d never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
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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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