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 FRYYou can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
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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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It was extremely important to show that Wilde’s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
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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 don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There’s very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I’m lucky enough that it’s reasonably mild in my case.
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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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You 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.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
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