When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
STEPHEN FRYWhen you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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I’ve always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.
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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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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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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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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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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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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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