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.
STEPHEN FRYOh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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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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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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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 we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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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’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don’t offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
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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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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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I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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