I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
STEPHEN FRYI get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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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 think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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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 get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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I’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there’s just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
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I think the fact that I’m so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn’t be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman – I’ll kiss a frog if you like.
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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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