Stephen Fry Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“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'.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don't offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.”

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

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

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

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

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