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.
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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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 get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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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 need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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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 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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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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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