You 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 FRYIt only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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Personally, 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.
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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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No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it’s always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It’s a wonderful journey to take.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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