Stephen Fry quotes

Born
24 August 1957, Hampstead, London, England.

Occupation
Actor, comedian, writer, presenter.

Stephen Fry is an English comedian, actor, writer and presenter.

I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
– Stephen Fry

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
– Stephen Fry

Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
– Stephen Fry

Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
– Stephen Fry

 I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
– Stephen Fry

My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
– Stephen Fry

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
– Stephen Fry

That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
– Stephen Fry

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
– Stephen Fry

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
– Stephen Fry

To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
– Stephen Fry

I’ve always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.
– Stephen Fry

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
– Stephen Fry

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
– Stephen Fry

If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
– Stephen Fry

My father was all brain and little heart.
– Stephen Fry

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
– Stephen Fry

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
– Stephen Fry

You don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.
– Stephen Fry

You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
– Stephen Fry
An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
– Stephen Fry
Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There’s very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I’m lucky enough that it’s reasonably mild in my case.
– Stephen Fry
Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
– Stephen Fry
I shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
– Stephen Fry
But happiness is no respecter of persons.
– Stephen Fry
Happiness is no respecter of persons.
– Stephen Fry
I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
– Stephen Fry
There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
– Stephen Fry
Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
– Stephen Fry
Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
– Stephen Fry
No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it’s always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It’s a wonderful journey to take.
– Stephen Fry
It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there’s an email, most of the time there’s a letter, someone wants something of you.
– Stephen Fry
I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
– Stephen Fry
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
– Stephen Fry
 I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
– Stephen Fry
My parents were marvelously educated people.
– Stephen Fry
I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
– Stephen Fry
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
– Stephen Fry
I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
– Stephen Fry
I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
– Stephen Fry
Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
– Stephen Fry