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

• If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Reading
  • Like
  • Hearing

• 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
  • Drinking
  • Really

• 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

• I'm a natural. That's why I make the big bucks.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Why
  • Natural
  • Big

• 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 enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Working
  • Kennedy
  • Ted

• 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

• When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark: But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Gay
  • Voice
  • Sands

• If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Women
  • Political
  • Best

• People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment.

  

  Claudia Black
  • People
  • Great
  • Period

• Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Passion
  • For Her

• Some feelings are to mortals givenWith less of earth in them than heaven;And if there be a human tearFrom passion's dross refined and clear,A tear so limpid and so meekIt would not stain an angel's cheek,'Tis that which pious fathers shedUpon a duteous daughter's head!

  

  Walter Scott
  • Earth
  • Passion
  • Heaven

• 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