I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
STEPHEN FRYThere is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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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 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 don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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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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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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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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