It was extremely important to show that Wilde’s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
STEPHEN FRYThere 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’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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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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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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 have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
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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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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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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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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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