I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
STEPHEN FRYI 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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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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 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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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Moving 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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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 don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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Having been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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