Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
STEPHEN FRYHaving 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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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.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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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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I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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 feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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