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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.
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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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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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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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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’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.
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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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