It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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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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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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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But if one could go back in time, I’d love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who’s one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in ‘Rio Bravo’.
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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 don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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As 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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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 father was all brain and little heart.
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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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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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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