When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
STEPHEN FRYWhen you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
STEPHEN FRYChristmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
STEPHEN FRYI’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.
STEPHEN FRYThat one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
STEPHEN FRYYou can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
STEPHEN FRYI think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
STEPHEN FRYI am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
STEPHEN FRYAn original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
STEPHEN FRYThere is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
STEPHEN FRYPersonally, I’d never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
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.
STEPHEN FRYBut happiness is no respecter of persons.
STEPHEN FRYWhen 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.
STEPHEN FRYBut 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’.
STEPHEN FRYYou don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.
STEPHEN FRY