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.
STEPHEN FRYI 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.
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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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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 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 have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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