You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
STEPHEN FRYTaste 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.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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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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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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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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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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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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There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don’t offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
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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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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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