But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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But if one could go back in time, I’d love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who’s one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in ‘Rio Bravo’.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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Personally, I’d never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
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I’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.
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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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I don’t watch television, 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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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