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.
STEPHEN FRYWhen you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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 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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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 think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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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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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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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