Stephen Fry Quotes

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.

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• The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Fun
  • You
  • Doing

• Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Yourself
  • Loneliness

• I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Work
  • Ideas
  • Media

• I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.

  

  Malcolm X
  • City
  • Blessed
  • Holy

• You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • You
  • Know
  • Person

• 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've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Team
  • Leadership

• Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Human
  • Difficult
  • Being

• For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Strong
  • Fear
  • Interesting

• I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Growing

• Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • People
  • Time
  • Greed

• Never let the negativity get to you. There are gonna be a lot of people you have to plow through, but as long you believe in yourself, that's all that matters.

  

  Becky G
  • People
  • Believe
  • Long

• Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Woman
  • Design
  • Attitude

• The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • American
  • History

• The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Waste

• When you boil down the real facts and statistics of what carbon dioxide is doing to this planet... to not feel like you have to do something... I don't think you're human.

  

  A. J. Buckley
  • Real
  • Think
  • Doing

• Communication services need interoperability to succeed - and Loopt is the first such service since SMS that is available across all major U.S. wireless carriers.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Service
  • Communication

• Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would get alerted. You must be aware that railways are full of such elements and my fight is against them.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Fight
  • Interests
  • Funds

• Our ways go wide and I know not whither, But my song will search through the worlds for you, Till the Seven Seas waste and the Seven Stars wither, And the dream of the heart comes true.I am out to the roads and the long, long questing, On dark tides driven, on great winds blown: I pass the runs of the world, unresting, I sail to the unknown.

  

  Edwin Markham
  • World
  • Great
  • Long

• There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.

  

  S. M. Stirling
  • Character
  • Book
  • Opinion

• Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

  

  Liberty Hyde Bailey
  • Good
  • Children
  • Opportunity

• Directing is really my favorite thing to do, but if I never directed again, I'd be okay if all the work I did was good.

  

  Jeff Garlin
  • Good
  • Work

• Would we prefer to be lifting it? Of course we would. You can't look back, we have to look forward and say what are we going to do get it back next year.

  

  David Gill
  • Lifting

• 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
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Choices