I think the fact that I’m so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn’t be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman – I’ll kiss a frog if you like.
STEPHEN FRYThere 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.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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You don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.
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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 don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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