Happiness is no respecter of persons.
STEPHEN FRYHappiness is no respecter of persons.
STEPHEN FRYAn original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
STEPHEN FRYNo, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it’s always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It’s a wonderful journey to take.
STEPHEN FRYThey 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.
STEPHEN FRYYou can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
STEPHEN FRYChristmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
STEPHEN FRYI 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.
STEPHEN FRYI’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
STEPHEN FRYIt is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
STEPHEN FRYI think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
STEPHEN FRYOh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
STEPHEN FRYI get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
STEPHEN FRYTaste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
STEPHEN FRYPersonally, 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.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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