Stephen Fry Quotes

My secret is that I have never thought there is a secret to anything in life. Passion. Love. Drive. Work. Work. Work. Dull but true.

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• I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• Everyone will be happier if fewer women are tied to abusive men, drop out of school, and live impoverished lives because of a random pregnancy.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Men
  • Live
  • Women

• Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Home
  • Independent
  • Television

• Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Wife

• I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • Man
  • Media
  • Social Media

• Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Cancer

• The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Time
  • Women
  • Hope

• What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Christ
  • Really
  • Drinking

• Every so often, we - women in film and TV - get annoyed and frustrated. We kick up a fuss and make some gains. But then we become complacent, and things slide backwards again until the next generation comes up and gets frustrated again.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Up
  • Women
  • Film

• Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Good
  • Choice

• I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • God
  • Dream
  • Day

• Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Good
  • Words
  • Sports

• I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.

  

  Hank Ballard
  • Rock
  • Picture
  • Without

• I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Art
  • Change
  • New

• I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git.

  

  Linus Torvalds

• Sorry my life is so much more bitchin' than yours. I planned it this way.

  

  Charlie Sheen
  • Life
  • Sorry

• I don't have any interest in doing superhero franchise movies. I don't connect to the fantastic, and I'm not a comic person - it's just not my thing, so I'm not looking in that direction - but ambitious films on a big scale I'm very interested in looking at.

  

  David MacKenzie
  • Superhero

• Sometimes, men just need a little push. Men won't always be like, 'You are so beautiful. You look great today.' And sometimes women want to hear that.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• Be yourself, take control of your life.

  

  Emma Bunton Spice Girls
  • Life
  • Control

• I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Me
  • Find
  • Mad

• Your own creations are your own children; you gave life to them, so you’ll always have, if not more passion to them, more connections to them.

  

  Brian K. Vaughan
  • Life
  • Children
  • Passion

• I'm firmly of the belief that your youth should be spent pursuing your passion - not just slightly, tremulously, haltingly, but unrelentingly, with a vengeance, to the max and then beyond. So dream laughably big - and then take an absurdly huge risk or two.

  

  Umair Haque
  • Dream
  • Passion
  • Risk

• I'm sure the red fern has grown and has completely covered the two little mounds. I know it is still there, hiding its secret beneath those long, red leaves, but it wouldn't be hidden from me for part of my life is buried there, too. Yes, I know it is still there, for in my heart I believe the legend of the sacred red fern.

  

  Wilson Rawls
  • Long
  • Secret

• My secret is that I have never thought there is a secret to anything in life. Passion. Love. Drive. Work. Work. Work. Dull but true.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Passion
  • Secret