Quotes from Stephen Fry

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.

Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

Happiness is no respecter of persons.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

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.

My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.

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.

I like to wake up each morning and not know what I think, that I may reinvent myself in some way.

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.

I think faith in each other is much harder than faith in God...

I knew I couldn't believe in God, because I was fundamentally Hellenic in my outlook.

Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?

I don't believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.

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.

If I were to believe in a god l would believe in gods. I think monotheism is the really ghastly thing. That is the absolutely staggering to me misapprehension.

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.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?

Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red-hot pokers or iron thumb-screws.

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.