There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
STEPHEN FRYI’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.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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 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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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I shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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