Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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 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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
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I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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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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You don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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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.
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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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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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