Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
STEPHEN FRYBut happiness is no respecter of persons.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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It was extremely important to show that Wilde’s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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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 think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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