Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
STEPHEN FRY
You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
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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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.
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I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
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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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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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As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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