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.
STEPHEN FRYThere is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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 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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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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It was extremely important to show that Wilde’s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
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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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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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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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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’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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