Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
STEPHEN FRYAs someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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I think the fact that I’m so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn’t be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman – I’ll kiss a frog if you like.
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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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 think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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