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.
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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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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Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
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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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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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I shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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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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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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