It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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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 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.
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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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You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there’s an email, most of the time there’s a letter, someone wants something of you.
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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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Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
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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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