Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
STEPHEN FRYChristmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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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 don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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