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.
STEPHEN FRYIt only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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I shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
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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 think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
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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 don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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