I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.
STEPHEN FRYWhen you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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Personally, I’d never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
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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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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I’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there’s just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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