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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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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’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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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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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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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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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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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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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Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There’s very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I’m lucky enough that it’s reasonably mild in my case.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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 don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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