My father was all brain and little heart.
STEPHEN FRY
My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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Having been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
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