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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.

Stephen Fry

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
STEPHEN FRY

Armchair Down Home Like Myself Occasionally Shop Smoke Think Wander Write
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.
STEPHEN FRY

Blackness Complete Direction Future Go Purpose Seem Sense Somehow
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
STEPHEN FRY

Altar Celebrate Freedom Language Lover Purity Tolerance Truth Workshipper
I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
STEPHEN FRY

Art Destroy Oneself Talk Television Think Want
Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
STEPHEN FRY

Every Hear Hilariously Odd Philosophy Sometimes Speech Thing Use Word
My father was all brain and little heart.
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All Brain Faith Heart Little War
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.
STEPHEN FRY

Accurate Detail Future never Paraphernalia Project Spirit Think View
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
STEPHEN FRY

Business Entering Good Journalism Least Many Morem Think No People Sewage Some Would
There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
STEPHEN FRY

Anybody Doubt Else Extreme Greater Have Mood No
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.
STEPHEN FRY

Actor Been Direct Grave Have Long One So Twenty Without Writer Year
That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
STEPHEN FRY

Another Can Gender Homophobe Love Not Only Really Same Stand
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.
STEPHEN FRY

Always Amusingly Country Eccentric English Great Had People Person Respect
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.
STEPHEN FRY

Action Chair Coffee Film Limit Love Machine Most Move Them Watch
I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
STEPHEN FRY

Age Bladder Em Me Need Remind That
I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
STEPHEN FRY

Backward Cloth Do Exist Know Nude Seen Somersault

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