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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

Stephen Fry

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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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 believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.
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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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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 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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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