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.
STEPHEN FRYI get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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I 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.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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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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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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To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
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No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it’s always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It’s a wonderful journey to take.
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I 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.
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