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.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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I’ve always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.
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Having been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
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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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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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I 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.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
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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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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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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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