Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
STEPHEN FRYI 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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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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’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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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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