I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we’re not 100 per cent human, that we’re always letting ourselves down. We’re constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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 was extremely important to show that Wilde’s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
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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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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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I’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.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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