- Stephen Fry: Does anyone remember - there's a wonderful line in that film, "The Agony and the Ecstasy," which is where Charlton Heston plays Michelangelo, and Rex Harrison plays--
- Alan Davies: Charlton Heston played Michelangelo? The effete Italian homosexual?
- Stephen Fry: Yes, that's the one, he was not effete--
- Alan Davies: Played by the president of the gun club?
- Stephen Fry: He was athletic! He was an athletic Italian homosexual!
- Alan Davies: I thought he was a wussy one!
- Stephen Fry: He may well have preferred man-on-man action, that doesn't mean he was a bleeding fairy! He was butch, like me!
- Alan Davies: When I say "wussy one" I don't mean he was, that he was gay, I mean, he was a bit of a...
- [makes limp wrist actions]
- Stephen Fry: No, you've got it the other way round.
- Alan Davies: I thought Da Vinci was the hard case, and...
- Stephen Fry: No, Michelangelo was an animal. He was physical...
- Alan Davies: Michelangelo was! He never washed, he stank.
- Stephen Fry: Very strong, a big beard...but he preferred to take it up the carriageway, so there we are.