You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
STEPHEN FRYI’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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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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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there’s an email, most of the time there’s a letter, someone wants something of you.
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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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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.
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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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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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