I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
STEPHEN FRYYou can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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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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No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it’s always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It’s a wonderful journey to take.
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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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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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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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