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When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

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.

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

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'.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

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.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

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.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

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.

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.

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.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

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.

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

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.

No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take.

Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.

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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