Happiness is no respecter of persons.
STEPHEN FRYMoving 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.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we’re not 100 per cent human, that we’re always letting ourselves down. We’re constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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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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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