Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry
Stephen John Fry is an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter and activist. After a troubled childhood and adolescence, during which he was expelled from two schools and spent three months in prison for credit card fraud, Fry secured a place at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he studied English literature. While at university, he became involved with the Cambridge Footlights, where he met his long-time collaborator Hugh Laurie. As half of the comic double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth24 August 1957
CityHampstead, England
Stupid people like to delude themselves that while they may not be clever, they were at least able to compensate with feelings and insights denied to the intellectual....It was precisely this kind of false belief that made stupid people so stupid. The truth was the clever people had infinitely more resources from which to make the leaps of connection that the world called intuition. What was 'intelligence' after all, but the ability to read into things?
The people I know who SWEAR THE MOST tend to have the widest vocabularies.
One of the reasons I love the online world is that although that exists in abundance you can choose absolutely which part of the online world you want to live in. You can make your own kingdom in that sense.
Stop wanting wealth and fame and start wanting instead to do something well about which you are passionate
Homosexuals are not interested in making other people homosexuals. Homophobes are interested in making other people homophobes.
How can one not be fond of something that the Daily Mail despises?
When we understand every single secret of the universe, there will still be left the eternal mystery of the human heart.
The stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand its force and quality the way you do - just as your friends (thank heavens) don't also fall in love with the person you are going on and on about to them.
I've always been aware of my sexuality, but I never quite knew what it meant...
I'm afraid I was very much the traditionalist. I went down on one knee and dictated a proposal which my secretary faxed over straight away.
If there is a sort of national American emotion I would call it optimism. If there is an English one I would call it embarrassment - not even pessimism - just sheer shame, embarrassment and confusion.
And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm.
Families where there is not much laughter I think are signs of some sort of dysfunctionality or sickness.
Part of life is learning what to be ashamed of and what to be proud of.