If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
STEPHEN FRYI’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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.
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You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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It was extremely important to show that Wilde’s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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.
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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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