December 2011
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Hugh and I were writing and we would write everyday - Monday to Friday and we ‘d...
– Stephen Fry on Hugh Laurie
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Let’s forget what successful people have in common, if there’s a thing...
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Either if I see a YouTube film or read a blog, my eyes go below to the bottom of...
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‘It’s a common enough word, but it might mean something different to you than it...
– The Liar
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People don’t listen. If people smoke cigarettes because they think ‘Oh, it’s...
– Stephen Fry, Esquire (1994)
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I suppose I’m slightly disappointed that Ann Widdecombe in particular should say...
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When I say I’m playing Mycroft Holmes, people go “Oh, that’s good casting”, but...
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Interviewer: How would you like to die?
Stephen Fry: Kind offer, but no thanks.
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Self-consciousness, that’s what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing...
– Making History
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Stephen Fry:
There was a strange man called Charles Isham who was a vegetarian spiritualist who believed that putting ornamental garden gnomes into a garden would attract real gnomes.
David Mitchell:
Did he wish to try and kill real gnomes? Or did he want to track real gnomes?
Stephen Fry: No, he wanted to commune with them. He wanted to commune with them. He said, "seeing and hearing gnomes is not mental delusion, but extension of faculty".
Alan Davies:
It's a nice try. It's lovely being clever when you're mental.
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Stephen Fry: How long does the perfect job interview last?
Jo Brand: How long does a blowjob take?
Stephen Fry: The extraordinary thing is, the answer is exactly what I got on my card. It's 12 seconds!
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Question: Why does Stephen Fry hate Facebook?
Stephen Fry: It's hard to explain. I mention hives and it really is like an allergy. Every aspect of design and every decision in terms of connection and privacy is like a loaf of bread to a coeliac or a haunch of venison to a vegetarian. I wish I could give you a rational explanation. I am quite prepared to have my loathing dismissed as prejudice and "motiveless malignity", as Coleridge said of Iago. Doubtless it's all my fault.
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Stephen: The reason we're not going to do this sketch is that it contains a great deal of sex and violence.
Hugh: A great deal.
Stephen: Lots of sex and violence.
Hugh: That's right. During the sketch, Stephen hits me several times with a golf club.
Stephen: Which of course wouldn't matter except that I do it very sexily.
Hugh: That's the trouble, you see. He does it so sexily. I wish you could see it.
Stephen: And then the sketch ends with us going to bed together...
Hugh: ...violently.
Stephen: Very, very violently. Now this raises problems.
Hugh: Not for me.
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Bill Bailey: Have you never milked an alligator?
Stephen Fry: No, no one has. And if you think you have, you've got problems.