There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
STEPHEN FRYChristmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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I think the fact that I’m so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn’t be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman – I’ll kiss a frog if you like.
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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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I’d probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I’ve always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
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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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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’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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 don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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