I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
STEPHEN FRYTaste 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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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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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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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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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