I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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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 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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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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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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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.
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