Top 100 Quotes About Stephen Fry
#1. When I was 15, if Stephen Fry had advised me to trim my eyebrows with a Flymo, I would have given it serious consideration.
Robert Webb
#2. Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.
Karl Pilkington
#4. People expect me to be stupid. I'm not saying I'm Stephen Fry, but it is amazing the perception people have.
Jamie Dornan
#5. Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.
David Tang
#6. The three people I've always wanted to meet are Stephen Fry, Billy Connolly and Steven Gerrard.
Andrew Buchan
#7. Stephen Fry is a master exponent of the English tongue. Some people might think that he is the most irritating man in Britain, but my wife and I love him all the same.
David Tang
#8. I don't know why I get cast in a lot of period pieces. Stephen Fry told me that I had a face for period, that I look like someone from 1920.
James McAvoy
#9. I'm looking for a woman with the body of Kelly Brook and the mind of Stephen Fry.
Stephen Merchant
#10. Forget ideas, Mr. Author.
What kind of pen do you use?
Stephen Fry
#11. I think it was Harry Walpole who remarked, In this life one should try everything once except incest and country dancing.
Stephen Fry
#12. Alternative medicine people call themselves "holistic" and say it's the "whole" approach. Well, if it's the whole approach, let it be the mind as well. Use logic, use sense, use the incredible five wits you were given by creation.
Stephen Fry
#13. When push-off comes to shove-off, a man must have a reason to get out of bed in the mornings, something more than the threat of bedsores, at any rate.
Stephen Fry
#14. You either get Norfolk, with its wild roughness and uncultivated oddities, or you don't. It's not all soft and lovely. It doesn't ask to be loved.
Stephen Fry
#15. There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.
Stephen Fry
#16. 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
#17. The fool doth think he is wise, yet it is the wise man that knows himself to be the fool As You Like It, Act 5, Scene 1
Stephen Fry
#18. I'm afraid I don't believe there is such a thing as blasphemy, just outrage from those insecure in their own faith.
Stephen Fry
#19. Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise.
Stephen Fry
#20. What the eye doesn't see the stomach doesn't heave over.
Stephen Fry
#21. But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that this last lie might see him through to the grave.
Stephen Fry
#22. There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.
Stephen Fry
#23. As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition and acquiescence, I shuttle between worrying whether I matter at all and whether anything else matters but me.
Stephen Fry
#24. [his healing skills] ..lay in the ability to comfort, to comfort in the proper sense, to make strong, to fortify
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#25. The class erupted into noisy laughter and, since I was always, and have always been, determined that merriment should never be seen to be at my expense, I joined in and accepted my star with as much pleased dignity as I could muster.
Stephen Fry
#26. Wisdom is probably the ability to cope. That's why someone who has to walk seven miles every day to get water for their children can be wiser than someone sitting behind a desk in Wall Street.
Stephen Fry
#27. I now accept that it is looking increasingly likely that Tiger Woods is, in fact, straight.
Stephen Fry
#28. Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
Stephen Fry
#29. We keep our insignificant blemishes so that we can blame them for our larger defects.
Stephen Fry
#30. Read it wisely, Little One, for the power of ignorance is great.
Stephen Fry
#31. Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
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#32. We hold on STEVE's still smiling face as MICHAEL passes by. STEVE's eyes follow MICHAEL out of the room and then the smile disappears.
It is replaced by a look of hunger and desolation.
Stephen Fry
#33. It was behaviour that I thought not far from racism, sexism or any other kind of prejudice or snobbery. 'Because you are not cute, I do not want to know you' was, to me, hardly different from suggesting 'because you are gay, I dislike you
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#34. 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.
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#35. I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like.
Stephen Fry
#36. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
Stephen Fry
#37. I may have looked happy but inside I was hopelessly depressed.
Stephen Fry
#38. I also knew that he was the kind of anile little runt who, in foyers and theatre bars the West End over, can be heard bleating into their gin and tonics, "I go to the theatre to be entertained.
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#39. The performance of buggery is no more inevitable a part of homosexuality than an orange syllabub is an inevitable part of a dinner: some may clamour for it and instantly demand a second helping, some are not interested, some decide they will try it once and then instantly vomit.
Stephen Fry
#40. What makes a good family? Well, I suppose obviously love. Love lubricated often I think by humor. I think a family that can laugh at each other and tease themselves and who are able to be jolly with each other I think is the key.
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#41. Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.
Stephen Fry
#42. When we understand every single secret of the universe, there will still be left the eternal mystery of the human heart.
Stephen Fry
#43. It was a Tuesday in February. Many my life's most awful moments have taken place on Tuesdays. And what is February if not the Tuesday of the year?
Stephen Fry
#44. Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.
Stephen Fry
#45. When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
Stephen Fry
#46. Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?
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#47. I've always been aware of my sexuality, but I never quite knew what it meant ...
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#48. Everything had been based on a kind of certainty, a sense of man at the center of things, a sense of order and hierarchy. And suddenly, almost simultaneously, extraordinary discoveries are made.
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#49. The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.
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#50. Simon Gray, I decided when I first witnessed this frog into prince transformation, did not have a drinking problem. He had a drinking solution.
Stephen Fry
#51. Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I'd rather describe myself as a humanist ... I don't believe in God. I don't believe there is a God.
Stephen Fry
#52. We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously.
Stephen Fry
#53. Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.
Stephen Fry
#54. After the shooting of John Lennon and the early death of so many great stars and the utter naked venal mercantile marketing of pop music and rock music, I don't think anyone really believes that music is anything more than another commodity.
Stephen Fry
#55. I never quite dare to believe I'm brave enough to be an artist, but I'm on the side of artists. I think of myself as a bit of a Salieri, looking with longing eyes at Mozart.
Stephen Fry
#56. You are who you are when nobody's watching.
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#57. My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite kind of person, in fact.
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#58. My real dissatisfaction is with my dissatisfaction. How dare I be so discontent? How dare I? Or being discontent why cannot I shut up about it?
Stephen Fry
#59. Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - 'It destroys everything around it, except itself.'
Stephen Fry
#60. Old professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
Stephen Fry
#61. It is complete loose stool water. It is arse-gravy of the worst kind. - About The Da Vinci Code
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#62. Pomposity and indignation grow in old age, like nostril hairs and earlobes.
Stephen Fry
#63. 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.
Stephen Fry
#64. To expect a convict to have the strength to give up smoking is to expect a leopard to change his spots, become vegetarian and learn to knit, all on the same day.
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#65. And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm.
Stephen Fry
#66. Feelings are not something to which one does or does not have rights.
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#67. All the cold-reading clairvoyants and the nonsensical astrologers and absurd ESP merchants and other such people who talk about vibrations and energies ... God, if there's a word that drives me mad it's "energy" used in a nonsensical way-don't get me started!
Stephen Fry
#68. Catholic versus Protestant, essentially. It's that kind of fight ... And it goes on to this day. Will we never learn? Who knows? Religion. Shit it.
Stephen Fry
#69. 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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#70. Things are always worse in the steady watches of the night.
Stephen Fry
#71. I've always believed it right for young people to drink. Not to be alcoholic of course, that is a passive state of being, not a positive action. But it is good to drink to excess.
Stephen Fry
#72. It's certainly easy to mock some things ... Oddly enough though I've never found it easy to mock anything of value. Only things that are tawdry and fatuous - perhaps it's just me.
Stephen Fry
#73. Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality.
Stephen Fry
#74. That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
Stephen Fry
#75. 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.
Stephen Fry
#76. The service took place on one of those afternoons that occur only in the past.
Stephen Fry
#77. 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.
Stephen Fry
#78. Why should I be depressed? I've got enough money. I've got a job. People like me. There is no to be depressed. That's at stupid as saying there is no reason to have asthma or there is no reason to have the measles. You know you've got it. It's there. It's not about reason.
Stephen Fry
#79. That's alright," said Hugo. "I've got some wine"
Which was about all he seemed to have. He poured out two mugfuls.
"Very nice," said Adrian, sipping appreciatively. "I wonder how they got the cat to sit on the bottle."
"It's cheap, that's the main thing.
Stephen Fry
#80. I think I'm most nervous about revealing how nervous I have always been. People think me calm, confident, poised. Inside I'm a jelly ...
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#81. An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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#82. I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
Stephen Fry
#83. You can never hope to recapture the first fine careless rapture
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#84. The puzzle that besets me is best expressed by the following statements. a: None of what follows ever happened b: All of what follows is entirely true
Stephen Fry
#85. I always feel a fool when in the company of people who work for a living. It brings out my startling lack of common sense.
Stephen Fry
#86. Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless stalemate.
Stephen Fry
#87. Thank you for your input; I can tell you are struggling towards being interesting.
Stephen Fry
#88. I was happy there. Which is to say I was not unhappy there. Unhappiness and happiness I have always been able to carry about with me, irrespective of place and people, because I have never joined in.
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#89. If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it.
Stephen Fry
#90. Hey-ho, it's raining inside: it isn't my fault and there's nothing I can do about it, but sit it out. But the sun may well come out tomorrow and when it does, I shall take full advantage.
Stephen Fry
#91. My father was all brain and little heart.
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#92. You should give up.'
'Why?'
'For one thing, you'll live longer.'
'Oh, you don't live longer. It just seems longer.
Stephen Fry
#93. Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.
Stephen Fry
#94. As humourless a lump of dough as ever held a torchlight vigil outside the South African Embassy or stuck an AIDS awareness ribbon on an unwilling first-nighter.
Stephen Fry
#95. Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers.
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#96. 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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#97. I like to wake up each morning and not know what I think, that I may reinvent myself in some way.
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#98. Well, as Auden wondered: Will it come like a change in the weather? Will its greeting be courteous or rough? Will it alter my life altogether? O tell me the truth about love.
Stephen Fry
#99. I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.
Stephen Fry
#100. I think people talk about one love, but there is the need to love and the need to be loved are not the same thing and I suppose that's ... and it's working that out is part of growing up.
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