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.
STEPHEN FRYIt 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.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
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I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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