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.
STEPHEN FRYYou 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.
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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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’.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.
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There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don’t offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
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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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