There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
STEPHEN FRYI’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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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 think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there’s an email, most of the time there’s a letter, someone wants something of you.
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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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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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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
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