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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.

Stephen Fry

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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Having been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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 like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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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 get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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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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To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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