Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
STEPHEN FRYI 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.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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I think the fact that I’m so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn’t be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman – I’ll kiss a frog if you like.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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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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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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