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.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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Having been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
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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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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 think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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