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.
STEPHEN FRYGenerally, we admire the thing we are not.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There’s very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I’m lucky enough that it’s reasonably mild in my case.
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I shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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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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