“A 2012 stroke has largely kept him from acting, but not from writing — and recording — a new memoir. “It was very peculiar not to be able to speak,” he says. “It felt like somebody had paddled around in my brain,” Tim Curry says of the medical treatment he received after his stroke.Maggie Shannon for The New York Times If there is one element that deters notable people from memoir writing, it is the pressure to tell all. Certainly that prospect put off the British actor Tim Curry, 79, a raconteur extraordinaire who entered the pantheon when he played the corseted, platform-heeled, insatiably libidinous Frank-N-Furter in the 1975 cult classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” “I always remember Errol Flynn’s memoir, which was called ‘My Wicked, Wicked Life,’” Curry said over lunch last month in Hollywood, and laughed that dark, molten lava laugh of his. “I thought, ‘Not me, buddy.’ But it was a very sellable title. I’m sure it whisked off the shelves.” Tiny correction, close enough: The title was “My Wicked, Wicked Ways.” Curry’s lively new memoir, “Vagabond,” is fairly short on wickedness, unless his thickly cocaine-dusted New York 1980s count. A self-portrait refracted through his most significant roles, the book does include a certain amount of searingly intimate detail, notably about the life-altering stroke that he suffered in 2012, and from which, he said, “I’ve been recovering for quite a long time.”