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.
STEPHEN FRYAs 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.
STEPHEN FRYOld Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
STEPHEN FRYI’d probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I’ve always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
STEPHEN FRYMy father was all brain and little heart.
STEPHEN FRYHappiness is no respecter of persons.
STEPHEN FRYThere’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
STEPHEN FRYPhilosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
STEPHEN FRYMoving 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.
STEPHEN FRYIt only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
STEPHEN FRYIt is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
STEPHEN FRYGenerally, we admire the thing we are not.
STEPHEN FRYI 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.
STEPHEN FRYBecause, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
STEPHEN FRYIf you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
STEPHEN FRYTaste 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.
STEPHEN FRY