Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
STEPHEN FRYNo, 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.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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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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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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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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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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I’ve always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.
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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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