Stephen Fry Quotes

The most important philosophy I think is that even if it isn't true you must absolutely assume there is no afterlife.

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• I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • France
  • Southern
  • Invasion

• The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  

  Jack London
  • Time
  • Live
  • Trying

• I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Look

• My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.

  

  Jack Black
  • Children
  • Love
  • Death

• When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Thought
  • First
  • Rapper

• With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Character
  • Fall

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Me
  • Three
  • Bicycle

• When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • People
  • Movie
  • Same

• You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Choices
  • Win
  • Choice

• I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Finish

• Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Beautiful
  • Always
  • Glass

• As for what other people think of me, I could worry about that every day, but choose not to.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • People
  • Day
  • Worry

• I find inspiration by feeling like I haven't done or achieved anything. I push all songs I've written to the furthest part of my mind so I am not thinking of what I've done. I continue to think on what I need to do.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Feeling

• Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.

  

  Albert Ellis

• I am deluded enough to think I can bring something to the table.

  

  Huey Lewis Huey Lewis

• Let's make health care a meritocracy. Access to the best care goes to people who did what they could to avoid becoming ill.

  

  Astro Teller
  • People
  • Health

• I love playing for Ireland, and I love soccer, but when it comes down to it, I would choose boxing as my number one sport, as I'd miss it too much if I wasn't involved.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • Soccer
  • Boxing

• Artists, whether they're Tom Cruise or John Waters or Ron Howard or Oliver Stone, you can empower them to become a better version of themselves, but you cannot change them 180 degrees to be someone they are not.

  

  Brian Grazer

• I think there is a strong sentiment that there needs to be change in the district. There are some who believe that is tied to seeking a different superintendent. Our association is not seeking that.

  

  Alan Young
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Strong

• I mean, come on, Beyonce's the queen of pop music. She's the queen. If you could run for queen... I would put her name in the suggestion box. She's incredible.

  

  Darren Criss
  • Music
  • Queen
  • Incredible

• I gotta spread all this love that I have for myself, I gotta spread it to everybody else, because my positivity is going to change at least one person's day a day, and that's all that matters to me.

  

  Khalid

• Side note: When I dressed up like Harley Quinn on TV a long time ago, everyone was like, 'Who is that?' And now she's got an entire merchandise line.

  

  AJ Lee
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• The most important philosophy I think is that even if it isn't true you must absolutely assume there is no afterlife.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Philosophy