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 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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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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I’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there’s just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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