My parents were marvelously educated people.
STEPHEN FRYI 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.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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When 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.
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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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we’re not 100 per cent human, that we’re always letting ourselves down. We’re constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.
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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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
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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 don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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I 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.
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Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There’s very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I’m lucky enough that it’s reasonably mild in my case.
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