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.
STEPHEN FRYAn original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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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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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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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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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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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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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Personally, I’d never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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