My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
STEPHEN FRYI get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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.
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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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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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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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 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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There’s very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I’m lucky enough that it’s reasonably mild in my case.
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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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I’d probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I’ve always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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