Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
STEPHEN FRYWhen you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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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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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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 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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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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