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.
STEPHEN FRYIt is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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I shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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’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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