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’.
STEPHEN FRYOh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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I shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
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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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I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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It was extremely important to show that Wilde’s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
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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 don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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