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.
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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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 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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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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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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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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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I shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
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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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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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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 watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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