Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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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 think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don’t offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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