I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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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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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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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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I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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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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They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we’re not 100 per cent human, that we’re always letting ourselves down. We’re constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.
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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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