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.
STEPHEN FRYI am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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 don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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I’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there’s just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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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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