I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
STEPHEN FRYI’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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I’d probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I’ve always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
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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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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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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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 think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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