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.
STEPHEN FRYPhilosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
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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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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 don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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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 we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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You don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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