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.
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 don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There’s very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I’m lucky enough that it’s reasonably mild in my case.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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’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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Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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 don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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