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.
STEPHEN FRYThey 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.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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I shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
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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 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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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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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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 am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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