Stephen Fry quotes - page 5

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. (Stephen Fry)
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. View quote
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Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick? View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists. View quote
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How can one not be fond of something that thedespises? View quote
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Enthusiats are used to being mocked, maligned and misunderstood. We don't really mind. View quote
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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. View quote
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LSD reveals the whatness of things, their quiddity, their essence. The wateriness of water is suddenly revealed to you, the carpetness of carpets, the woodness of wood, the yellowness of yellow, the fingernailness of fingernails, the allness of all, the nothingness of all, the allness of nothing. For me music gives access to every one of these essences of existence, but at a fraction of the social or financial cost of a drug and without the need to cry 'Wow! View quote
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Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators. (Stephen Fry)
But because science doesn't know everything, that doesn't mean science knows nothing. Science knows enough for us to be watched by a few million people now on television, for these lights to be working, for quite extraordinary miracles to have taken place in terms of the harnessing of the physical world and our dim approaches towards understanding it. View quote
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That's why James Randi is so good, because he knows what magicians know: if you do a card trick on someone, they will report that it was unbelievable, they describe the effect the magician wanted, and they miss out all the steps in between that seemed irrelevant because the magician made them irrelevant, so they didn't notice them. View quote
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People still insist on things like holistic healing and things that have no real basis in evidence because they want it to be true-it's as simple as that. View quote
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My whole life stretched out gloriously behind me. View quote
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Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth. View quote
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There is nothing so self-righteous nor so right as an adolescent imagination. View quote
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I was called by my agent, who said "Would you like to record a track with Kate Bush?" To which there is only F-ing one possible answer. Unless its me singing. View quote
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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me. View quote
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Because the god who created this universe, if it was created by a god, is quite clearly a maniac, an utter maniac, totally selfish. We have to spend our life on our knees thanking him? What kind of god would do that? View quote
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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. (Stephen Fry)
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. View quote
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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously. View quote
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks. View quote
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Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down. View quote
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