Stephen Fry Quotes

• 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.

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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’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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• It was extremely important to show that Wilde’s s*xuality 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 think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.

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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 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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• 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 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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• It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

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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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• Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

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• It’s rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it’s Hemingway, Van Gogh… Robert Schumann has been mentioned… Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath… some of them with rather grim ends.

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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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• Personally, I’d never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.

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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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• Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

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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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• 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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Stephen Fry (63)

Birth:	24th August, 1957
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor, Author, Comedian, Director, Journalist, Playwriter, Poet, Screenwriter, Television Presenter

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