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.
STEPHEN FRYI 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.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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 we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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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 don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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 don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don’t offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
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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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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