As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
STEPHEN FRYIt is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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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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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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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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 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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Having been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
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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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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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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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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 don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
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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 TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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