It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
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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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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
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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 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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