When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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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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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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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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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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I’d probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I’ve always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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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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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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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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