I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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.
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There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don’t offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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Taste 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.
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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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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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