My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
STEPHEN FRYI 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’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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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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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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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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 get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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