Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
STEPHEN FRYSomehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
STEPHEN FRYThat one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
STEPHEN FRYI 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 FRYHappiness is no respecter of persons.
STEPHEN FRYMy parents were marvelously educated people.
STEPHEN FRYWhen 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.
STEPHEN FRYThere’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
STEPHEN FRYGenerally, we admire the thing we are not.
STEPHEN FRYYou 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.
STEPHEN FRYThere is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
STEPHEN FRYI feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.
STEPHEN FRYYou can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
STEPHEN FRYI 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 FRYI’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.
STEPHEN FRYIt is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
STEPHEN FRYYou can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
STEPHEN FRY