Stephen Fry Quotes

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Stephen Fry

Profession : Comedian

Birth : August 24, 1957

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.

Stephen Fry

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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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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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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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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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 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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My father was all brain and little heart.

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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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It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you.

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The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive.

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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it.

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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

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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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Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.

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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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

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My parents were marvelously educated people.

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