My parents were marvelously educated people.
STEPHEN FRYPhilosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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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I think the fact that I’m so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn’t be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman – I’ll kiss a frog if you like.
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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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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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Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There’s very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I’m lucky enough that it’s reasonably mild in my case.
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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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