It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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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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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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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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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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