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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Stephen Fry

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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Back Cheerfulness Extra Height Inch More Reason Yourself
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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Actor Being Certain Film Had Illusion Kind Lead
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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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But Coward Enough Lazy Oddly
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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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Being Great Happy Have Intellect Path
You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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But Happiness No Person Respect
I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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Back Being But Could Country Durect Go Great Hero However I Love People Person Time
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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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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Educate Marvelously Parents People Were
I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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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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I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we’re not 100 per cent human, that we’re always letting ourselves down. We’re constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.
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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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