Quote

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

Stephen Fry

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Stephen Fry
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 1
Actor
Autobiographer
Comedian
Director
Film Actor
Film Director
Improviser
Journalist
Narrator
Novelist
Performing Artist
Hampstead Village
Stephen John Fry
Six
Seven
Films
Direct
Takes
Five
Film
Time

More quotes by Stephen Fry

Image
...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.
Stephen Fry
Image
How to seperate the humiliation from the loss, that's the catch. You can never be sure if what tortures you is the pain of being without someone you love or the embarrassment of admitting that you have been rejected.
Stephen Fry
Image
Money is to Everything as an Aeroplane is to Australia. The aeroplane isn't Australia, but it remains the only practical way we know of reaching it. So perhaps, metonymically, the aeroplane is Australia after all.
Stephen Fry
Image
There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.
Stephen Fry
Image
Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise.
Stephen Fry
Image
Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.
Stephen Fry
Image
Between funny and witty Falls the shadow
Stephen Fry
Image
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
Image
I am magnificently prepared for the long littleness of life. There is diddley-squat for me to look forward to. Zilch, zero, zip-all, sweet lipperty-pipperty nothing. The only thought that will give me the energy to carry on is that someone has a life which would be diminished by my departure from it.
Stephen Fry
Image
All we have to do is listen. The Good Lord gave us two ears and only one mouth, my dear white-headed mother used to say.
Stephen Fry
Image
I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all.
Stephen Fry
Image
Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.
Stephen Fry
Image
You think homosexuality is disgusting? Then, it follows as the night the day, that you find sex disgusting, for there is nothing done between two men or two women that is, by any objective standard, different from that which is done between a man and a woman.
Stephen Fry
Image
Thank you for your input I can tell you are struggling towards being interesting.
Stephen Fry
Image
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
Stephen Fry
Image
My parents were marvelously educated people.
Stephen Fry
Image
The Gay News critic wrote that I 'carried the lilt of the Irish without the brogue'.
Stephen Fry
Image
I think faith in each other is much harder than faith in God...
Stephen Fry
Image
People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t
Stephen Fry
Image
I certainly don't want to be formulaic. I want to be honest and authentic and everything else.
Stephen Fry