I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
STEPHEN FRYMoving 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.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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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 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.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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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 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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I’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there’s just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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