It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there’s an email, most of the time there’s a letter, someone wants something of you.
STEPHEN FRY
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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It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there’s an email, most of the time there’s a letter, someone wants something of you.
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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 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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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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But 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’.
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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 don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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