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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Stephen Fry

There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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I think the fact that I’m so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn’t be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman – I’ll kiss a frog if you like.
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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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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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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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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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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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I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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