I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
STEPHEN FRYThere is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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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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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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I’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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it’s always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It’s a wonderful journey to take.
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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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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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But if one could go back in time, I’d love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who’s one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in ‘Rio Bravo’.
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