Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
STEPHEN FRYYou 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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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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 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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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No, 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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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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 am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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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’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.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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