Stephen Fry Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

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

“I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.”

“But happiness is no respecter of persons.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”