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.
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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
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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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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
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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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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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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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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