Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
STEPHEN FRYHaving 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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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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there’s an email, most of the time there’s a letter, someone wants something of you.
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I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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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