I’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there’s just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
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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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
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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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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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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.
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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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There 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 get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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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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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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I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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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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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 don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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