Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
STEPHEN FRYMy life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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 don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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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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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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