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.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
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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’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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