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.
STEPHEN FRYNow, 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.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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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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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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