Stephen Fry Quotes

There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world.
Stephen Fry

Learn, Tv, Window

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.
Stephen Fry

Trying, Again, Far

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

Down, Face, Parts

Happiness is no respecter of persons.
Stephen Fry

Happiness, Persons

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

Find, Looking, Religious

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
Stephen Fry

Good, Business, Journalism

My father was all brain and little heart.
Stephen Fry

Heart, Father, Brain

My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
Stephen Fry

Life, Writing, Two

Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
Stephen Fry

Film, Walk, Takes

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

Words, Writer, Paper

That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
Stephen Fry

Love, Same, Cannot

There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
Stephen Fry

Doubt, Else, Mood

You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
Stephen Fry

Time, Film, Act

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.
Stephen Fry

Love, Work, Person

As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
Stephen Fry

Government, Someone, Hard

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.
Stephen Fry

Time, Someone, Knowing

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

Love, Moving, Enjoy

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

Long, Writing, Happen

I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.
Stephen Fry

Love, Down, Country

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.
Stephen Fry

Future, Spirit, Style

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.
Stephen Fry

Great, Respect, Books

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.
Stephen Fry

Important, Human, Real

Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There's very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I'm lucky enough that it's reasonably mild in my case.
Stephen Fry

Enough, Lucky, Goes

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.
Stephen Fry

Friends, Knew, Seen

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.
Stephen Fry

Human, Down, Ourselves

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Nationality: British

Born: August 24, 1957

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