When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
STEPHEN FRYPhilosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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But 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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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.
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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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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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