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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.

Stephen Fry

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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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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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
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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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
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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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