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.
STEPHEN FRYLove in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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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 don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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You don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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’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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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