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.
STEPHEN FRYI like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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 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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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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I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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 always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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.
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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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