Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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I’ve always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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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 like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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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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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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