Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
STEPHEN FRYI think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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 don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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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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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it’s always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It’s a wonderful journey to take.
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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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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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