I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
STEPHEN FRYI 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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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 don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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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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