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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I 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 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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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 need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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Having been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
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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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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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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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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