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Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry

British Comedian

Born: Aug 24, 1957

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I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me. Stephen Fry

Me You Age Bladder Remind Need

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

Library Too Must Idea Them Full Hard Original Original Idea

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. Stephen Fry

Truth Freedom Language Lover Tolerance Worshipper Purity Altar Am

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

You Seen Backward Know Doing Exists Infant Clothing Why

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself. Stephen Fry

Art Think Television Destroys About Oneself Talking Watch

I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough. Stephen Fry

Coward Enough Bit Lazy Oddly

I don't watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself. Stephen Fry

Art Think Destroys TV About Oneself Talking Watch

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave. Stephen Fry

Love Word Five Eight Full Tones

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive. Stephen Fry

Christmas Travel Better First Hopefully Proof Terrible Arrive Than Child

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 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. Stephen Fry

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I don't believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods. Stephen Fry

God Believe Would Were Gods

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

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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

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. Stephen Fry

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

Love Gender Another Same Cannot Really Stand

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

World TV Window Learn Much

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties. Stephen Fry

Old Lose Faculties Never Die Just Professors

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. Stephen Fry

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My father was all brain and little heart. Stephen Fry

Heart Father Brain Little

Happiness is no respecter of persons. Stephen Fry

Happiness Persons

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

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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. Stephen Fry

Thought Somewhere Become Corner Would Stay Something Cambridge Quietly Grow

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