I’d probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I’ve always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
STEPHEN FRYWhen you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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But 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’.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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 need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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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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