My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
STEPHEN FRYI think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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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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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there’s an email, most of the time there’s a letter, someone wants something of you.
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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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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