It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
STEPHEN FRYI’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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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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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You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
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I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
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To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
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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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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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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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