Quotes from Stephen Fry

Hell, I am young. I am free. My teeth are clean. The sun shines. To hell with everything else

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

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.

And then I saw him and nothing was ever the same again. The sky was never the same colour, the moon never the same shape: the air never smelt the same, food never tasted the same. Every word I knew changed its meaning, everything that once was stable and firm became as insubstantial as a puff of wind, and every puff of wind became a solid thing I could feel and touch.

Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

If there were a God he would want us to be better spirited than to take his word for everything.

Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.

It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you.

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.

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.

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.

It's now very common to hear people say, "I'm rather offended by that." As if that gives them certain rights. It's simply a whine, just no more than a whine. "I find that offensive": it has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase.

There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.

I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.

I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.

I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.

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

I have always been an impassioned advocate for the works of Shakespeare. I regard him as one of the most complete miracles of his or any other age.

I want you to know that you are not alone in your being alone.