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.
STEPHEN FRYI like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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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 need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
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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 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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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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