Stephen Fry Quotes

You should give up.' 'Why?' 'For one thing, you'll live longer.' 'Oh, you don't live longer. It just seems longer.

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• 'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Heart
  • Place
  • Special

• Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Bad

• The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.

  

  Iman
  • You
  • Day
  • Settle

• My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • Life
  • Good
  • Believe

• 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

• There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

  

  Sally Field
  • Beautiful
  • Feel
  • Parts

• Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Good
  • Single
  • Day

• The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Age
  • Wisdom
  • Grow

• There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.

  

  Eben Alexander
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Self

• I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Different
  • Effect
  • Delightful

• Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Sometimes
  • Teacher
  • Advice

• There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Music
  • Different
  • Kids

• Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Thought
  • Wind
  • Writer

• Darryl Zanuck thought all women were either broads or librarians. He thought I was a librarian. He thought I was smart.

  

  Anne Baxter
  • Women
  • Smart

• Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Beautiful
  • Fire

• Well, when I came to Hollywood, there were three names really of Latin actors, three or four names, maybe five. There was Raul Julia, Edward James Olmos, Andy Garcia, Antonio Banderas, Jimmy Smits. Now there's a lot.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • Latin

• I guess I was the class clown - with a name like Albert Einstein, you don't hide in the back. I'd read the school bulletin to the class, and I'd add activities and make stuff up. It was good, a good 10 minutes every morning.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• A line has to have a certain number of syllables, and the next line has to be its mirror image.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Mirror

• I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

  

  Plato
  • Men
  • Ambition
  • I Know

• Never talk when you can nod and never nod when you can wink and never write an e-mail, because it's death. You're giving prosecutors all the evidence we need.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Death
  • Giving

• Be Americans. Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West. You are all dependent on one another and should be one in union. In one word, be a nation. Be Americans, and be true to yourselves.

  

  George Washington
  • Should
  • Nations
  • West

• I do not believe that it is necessarily the duty of the writer to give a voice to his community. If a writer is true to his vocation, to his or her vocation, the very process of creativity enlarges these human horizons. It provides insights, even when you're not writing, when your writing's not dealing with a concrete political situation.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Writing
  • Political
  • Giving

• You should give up.' 'Why?' 'For one thing, you'll live longer.' 'Oh, you don't live longer. It just seems longer.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Giving
  • Should