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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.

Stephen Fry

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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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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I 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.
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I’ve always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.
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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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
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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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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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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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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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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 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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
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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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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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