Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
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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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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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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I’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there’s just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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.
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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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’.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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