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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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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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 am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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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 don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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I shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
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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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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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