I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
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More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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 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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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it’s always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It’s a wonderful journey to take.
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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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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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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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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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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 get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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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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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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