It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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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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I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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Personally, I’d never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
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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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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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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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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