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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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
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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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I’d probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I’ve always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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