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Stephen Fry

I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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 think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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I’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there’s just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
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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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It was extremely important to show that Wilde’s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
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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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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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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 believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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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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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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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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I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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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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