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.
STEPHEN FRYWhen you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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 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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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 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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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 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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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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