There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
STEPHEN FRYI 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.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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Personally, I’d never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
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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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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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There 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.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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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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