Quote

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

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
Way
Australia
Practicals
Practical
Reaching
Remains
Perhaps
Money
Aeroplane
Everything
Aeroplanes

More quotes by Stephen Fry

Image
You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children
Stephen Fry
Image
Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.
Stephen Fry
Image
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?
Stephen Fry
Image
My general view is that best actor best suited to role should get the job. Obviously when it comes to colour and issues of ethnicity the choice is clear. But I do not believe you have to be transgender or have undergone sex reassignment surgery to be able play a character who has.Acting is acting after all.
Stephen Fry
Image
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
Stephen Fry
Image
I don't believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
Stephen Fry
Image
I can understand the Greek idea that there are these these principles of lightening or of war or of wisdom and to embody them, to personify them into a Athena or Aries or whichever god you want makes enormous sense.
Stephen Fry
Image
Knowing what I now know I would never have done anything so fatuous but then I never would have known what I know now had I not.
Stephen Fry
Image
That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
Stephen Fry
Image
You'll often hear the phrase science doesn't know everything. Well, of course it doesn't know everything. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean that it knows nothing.
Stephen Fry
Image
Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.
Stephen Fry
Image
It's a great privilege just to be in a film not because you're some packaging that some agent has done with the studio exec: We need a John Travolta film.
Stephen Fry
Image
It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.
Stephen Fry
Image
Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.
Stephen Fry
Image
Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.
Stephen Fry
Image
And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm.
Stephen Fry
Image
I think I'm most nervous about revealing how nervous I have always been. People think me calm, confident, poised. Inside I'm a jelly.
Stephen Fry
Image
I shall sustain a massive erection, that’s what, and I shan’t be answerable for the consequences. Some kind of ejaculation is almost bound to ensue and if either of you were to become pregnant I should never forgive myself.
Stephen Fry
Image
If you have been, I'm glad you've stopped.
Stephen Fry
Image
I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.
Stephen Fry