You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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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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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there’s just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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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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