I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
STEPHEN FRYBecause, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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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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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 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.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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 think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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