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 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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To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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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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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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