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Stephen Fry

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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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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All Brain Faith Heart Little War
They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we’re not 100 per cent human, that we’re always letting ourselves down. We’re constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.
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I’ve always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.
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Always Amusingly Country Eccentric English Great Had People Person Respect
Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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Between Divide Least Life Mixture Perform Two Write
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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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’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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I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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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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Blackness Complete Direction Future Go Purpose Seem Sense Somehow
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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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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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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