Author Profile
Stephen Fry
1957 • British • Comedian
60
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 60 quotesYou don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.— Stephen Fry
When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.— Stephen Fry
That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.— Stephen Fry
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.— Stephen Fry
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.— Stephen Fry
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.— Stephen Fry
When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.— Stephen Fry
Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.— Stephen Fry
There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don't offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.— Stephen Fry
But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in 'Rio Bravo'.— Stephen Fry