That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
STEPHEN FRYI’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.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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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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I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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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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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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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 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 don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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