There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
STEPHEN FRYMy life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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But if one could go back in time, I’d love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who’s one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in ‘Rio Bravo’.
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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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 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 think the fact that I’m so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn’t be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman – I’ll kiss a frog if you like.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There’s very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I’m lucky enough that it’s reasonably mild in my case.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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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