Stephen Fry Quotes

No one is perfect and everyone wishes they could change something about themselves.

I am not as bad as people would suggest. Not as good as I would like to be.

Obviously, if I could go back and change anything, I would be a perfect man. And I know there's no perfect man.

I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Nobody's perfect, and to try to pretend you're perfect is an exhausting fool's errand.

We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

I'm not perfect, but I strive for it.

I don't see in myself any perfection.

I'm not a perfect human being.

I am not a perfectionist. Perfection doesn't exist in real life. It's a wrong title for me.

We're all flawed human beings trying to be a better person on a daily basis and I didn't figure that out for a long, long time.

I'm pretty self-aware, and I am an embarrassingly flawed human being in a ton of ways.

I'm not perfect, but I do my best.

Even when I become a regular, I don't feel comfortable and try to always improve more.

Then again, Solomon was human. And that meant he was flawed (Go on, take a look at yourself in the mirror. A good long look, if you can bear it. See? Flawed's putting it mildly, isn't it?)

I'm the type of person who is always going to be somewhat dissatisfied with myself. I'm never going to be smart enough. I'm never going to be a good enough father and husband. I'm never going to be a good enough actor for myself. I just never will be, and I have to get comfortable with waking up every day and trying to move some little increment closer to the person I have always dreamed of being. This is the journey.

Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself, That I recoil and droop, and seek repose In listlessness from vain perplexity, Unprofitably travelling towards the grave.

One of the nice things about looking at a bear is that you know it spends 100 per cent of every minute of every day being a bear. It doesn't strive to become a better bear. It doesn't go to sleep thinking, "I wasn't really a very good bear today". They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.

Maybe I am a jerk sometimes. Maybe I'm not. I think most people are kind of a jerk once in a while.

I'm a good person, but with many defects.

I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

I may not be perfect, but I'm trying.

I think there are many faces to everyone. I also have my bad sides. Also I think everyone is trying to improve their shortcomings to become more wholesome.