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

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

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

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Comedian

Born: August 24th, 1957

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