I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
STEPHEN FRYMany people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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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’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 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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Personally, I’d never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
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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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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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