Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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 don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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 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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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’.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
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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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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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