Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
STEPHEN FRYNow, 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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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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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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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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There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don’t offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
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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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Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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It was extremely important to show that Wilde’s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
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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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