When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
STEPHEN FRYWhen you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
STEPHEN FRYGenerally, we admire the thing we are not.
STEPHEN FRYI 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.
STEPHEN FRYYou can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
STEPHEN FRYOh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
STEPHEN FRYBut happiness is no respecter of persons.
STEPHEN FRYIt 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.
STEPHEN FRYThere 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.
STEPHEN FRYOld Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
STEPHEN FRYBut if one could go back in time, I’d love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who’s one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in ‘Rio Bravo’.
STEPHEN FRYThere is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
STEPHEN FRYIt only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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.
STEPHEN FRYWhen 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.
STEPHEN FRYMy parents were marvelously educated people.
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