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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.

Stephen Fry

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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Actor Being Certain Film Had Illusion Kind Lead
I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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But Coward Enough Lazy Oddly
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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Blackness Complete Direction Future Go Purpose Seem Sense Somehow
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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Down Fall Go Like Love Person Sit That Violently Wish Write
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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Convince Difficult Fact Gay Known Make Relationship Screen Think Very Well Woman
I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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Between Divide Least Life Mixture Perform Two Write
As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
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Bound Happen Hard Labor Nineties Not Really Regret Someone Victory Work
Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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Admire Generally Not Thing We
Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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Crack Over Paper Somehow Structural Tend Use Word Writer
I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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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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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 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.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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Happiness Person Respect
But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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But Happiness No Person Respect

Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.

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