Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
STEPHEN FRYBecause, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
STEPHEN FRYGenerally, we admire the thing we are not.
STEPHEN FRYI’ve always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.
STEPHEN FRYSomehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
STEPHEN FRYTo 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.
STEPHEN FRYBut if one could go back in time, I’d love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who’s one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in ‘Rio Bravo’.
STEPHEN FRYI 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 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 FRYHappiness is no respecter of persons.
STEPHEN FRYWhen you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
STEPHEN FRYI have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
STEPHEN FRYOld Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
STEPHEN FRYBut happiness is no respecter of persons.
STEPHEN FRYLove in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
STEPHEN FRYThere’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
STEPHEN FRY