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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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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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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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You don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don’t offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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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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Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
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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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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