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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

Stephen Fry

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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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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I think the fact that I’m so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn’t be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman – I’ll kiss a frog if you like.
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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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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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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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I’ve always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.
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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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Having 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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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