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.
STEPHEN FRYThey 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 believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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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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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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