You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
STEPHEN FRYIt 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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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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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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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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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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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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I’ve always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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