You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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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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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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 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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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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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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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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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 don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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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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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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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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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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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