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
it's important to make that show. You have to go away for at least a month and then do an interview with a talk show.
There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.
Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.
The most natural way you would attempt to cope with something inside you that is affecting your moods and your energy levels is to intervene with chemicals to help and because medical science hasn't come up with pharmaceuticals that do particularly well you tend to reach for the chemicals that are outside the Pharma counter, i.e. narcotics and alcohol because they can guarantee your mood more or less.
The English language is an arsenal of weapons. If you are going to brandish them without checking to see whether or not they are loaded, you must expect to have them explode in your face from time to time.
If you think you're going to have an eternity in which you can talk to Mozart and Chopin and Schopenhauer on a cloud and learn stuff and you know really get to grips with knowledge and understanding and so you won't bother now, I think it's a terrible, a terrible mistake.
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.
Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers
No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.
If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases and yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily about our ears.
Stop wanting wealth and fame and start wanting instead to do something well about which you are passionate
I've always been aware of my sexuality, but I never quite knew what it meant...
I now accept that it is looking increasingly likely that Tiger Woods is, in fact, straight.