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Stephen Fry
August 24, 1957 -
Nationality: British
Category: Comedian
Subcategory: British Comedian

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

   

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

   

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.

   

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

   

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.

   

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

   

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

   

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.

   

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

   

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.

   

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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.

   

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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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