That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
STEPHEN FRYThere’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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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I’ve always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.
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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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Having been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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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.
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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.
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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 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 think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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 like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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