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Stephen Fry

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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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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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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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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I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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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 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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.

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