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.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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 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’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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 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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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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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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 believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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