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
Stephen Fry quotes about
Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.
Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.
I now accept that it is looking increasingly likely that Tiger Woods is, in fact, straight.
Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.
Entry is not equivalent to possession.
I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You do not have to choose between one or the other. You can have both. The human cultural jungle should be as varied and plural as the Amazonian rainforest. We are all richer for biodiversity. We may decide that a puma is worth more to us than a caterpillar, but surely we can agree that the habitat is all the better for being able to sustain each.
That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
Not one word of the following is true
First love is unrequited ultimately because it’s so huge.It’s such an act of giving and it requires so much back that it can never be given back. It’s like an atom bomb. It’s like… It’s all the energy of who you are and who you want to be and what you love and what you hope to be explodes. It is impossible for a single... human being to offer that back to you in a mutual way.
Like vichyssoise, revenge is a dish best served cold.