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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Stephen Fry

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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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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You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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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 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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I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
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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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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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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