I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
STEPHEN FRYWhen you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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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’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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Personally, I’d never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
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