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.
STEPHEN FRYMany people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
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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 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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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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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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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But if one could go back in time, I’d love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who’s one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in ‘Rio Bravo’.
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Personally, I’d never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
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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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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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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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