Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
STEPHEN FRYThere 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.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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I’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there’s just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
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I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.
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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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You don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.
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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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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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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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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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