September 2011
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Interviewer: What's your favourite movie quote?
Stephen Fry: Ooh, it varies. I crib from films all the time. "Watch out for the first step, it's a doozy." That's one from Groundhog Day. Great film. There's a line from a film, which is excellent, a really good film by John Badham called War Games, and there's one scene where a marvellous actor, Dabney Coleman, just says: "I don't have to take that from you, you pig-eyed sack of s***!" I just find that a very useful line, to use occasionally. It just has a nice crunchy rhythm to it.
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Interviewer: What's the best piece of advice you've ever been given?
Stephen Fry: I want to say something cute, like: "Don't take advice." But in terms of film, it's always other directors saying, "Don't be afraid to ask." Just ask for help when you need it. That's the best advice.
Interviewer: And the worst?
Stephen Fry: Someone said to me, "Yeah, go on. You should play a part in that Spice Girls movie."
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Interviewer: What's the dumbest question you've ever been asked?
Stephen Fry: One usually tries to push these things into the back of one's mind, or erase them entirely. There are very dumb questions like, "Did you get here all right?" Which is one journalists say, and to which you answer, "No. I left my leg behind." But there is a classic journalist question, which they should be trained never to ask and that is: "What's it like..." So you get: "What's it like working with John Travolta?" To which there's no real answer. You can be very literal and say: "It's like riding a cloud in a pair of cinnamon-coloured pyjamas, upside down on a Wednesday. That's what it's like." You know what I mean? Everyone always asks, "what's it like...?" What do they mean, what's it like? They just can't think of an intelligent question to ask.
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Stephen Fry: There's a name for a pyramid with a flat top...
Alan Davies: Unfinished.
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“In those days Stephen of course wasn’t the national treasure that he has...”
– John Lloyd
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Right, since a lot of you rather wait for the XL, maybe one QI post on saturday and the rest after the XL has aired? For those not able to watch episodes before that, you can always download tumblr savior and blacklist the episode number (that would be I01, I02, I03 and so on) and if I can I’ll try to provide download links as soon as possible. Don’t forget that QI has moved to BBC...
Since the new series of QI starts tonight, is it okay with everyone if I post about episodes the day after they aired? Or should I wait a few more days?
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Watchhughlauriefan:
Hugh Laurie - GQ acceptance video [HQ]
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“He can’t even afford to shave - he pretends not to resent my success.”
– Stephen Fry (about Hugh Laurie)
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“But above all let there be pleasure. Let there be textural delight, let there be...”
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