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.
STEPHEN FRYI think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
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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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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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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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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 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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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