Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
STEPHEN FRYTo 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.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
-
-
It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there’s an email, most of the time there’s a letter, someone wants something of you.
STEPHEN FRY -
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
STEPHEN FRY -
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.
STEPHEN FRY -
That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
STEPHEN FRY -
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
STEPHEN FRY -
Personally, I’d never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
STEPHEN FRY -
They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we’re not 100 per cent human, that we’re always letting ourselves down. We’re constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.
STEPHEN FRY -
I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
STEPHEN FRY -
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 FRY -
Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
STEPHEN FRY -
I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
STEPHEN FRY -
My father was all brain and little heart.
STEPHEN FRY -
My parents were marvelously educated people.
STEPHEN FRY -
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.
STEPHEN FRY -
Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
STEPHEN FRY






