That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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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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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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 like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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