Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
STEPHEN FRYIf you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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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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I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don’t offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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It was extremely important to show that Wilde’s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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 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.
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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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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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To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
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I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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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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It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there’s an email, most of the time there’s a letter, someone wants something of you.
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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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