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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.

Stephen Fry

No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it’s always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It’s a wonderful journey to take.
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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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Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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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’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.
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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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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
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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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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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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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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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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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