I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
STEPHEN FRYIt 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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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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.
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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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But if one could go back in time, I’d love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who’s one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in ‘Rio Bravo’.
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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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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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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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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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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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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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