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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.

Stephen Fry

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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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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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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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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Having been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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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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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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