But if one could go back in time, I’d love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who’s one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in ‘Rio Bravo’.
STEPHEN FRYThat one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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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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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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