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

Stephen Fry Quotes

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.

— Stephen Fry
Book

The email of the species is deadlier than the mail.

— Stephen Fry

Like vichyssoise, revenge is a dish best served cold.

— Stephen Fry

Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.

— Stephen Fry

Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.

— Stephen Fry
Fun

Places of incredible glamour, possibility, power, excitement and pleasure. Love your libraries!

— Stephen Fry

If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.

— Stephen Fry

I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.

— Stephen Fry

There can’t be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn’t room. There can’t be.

— Stephen Fry

Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

— 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

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.

— Stephen Fry

Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.

— Stephen Fry

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.

— Stephen Fry

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

— Stephen Fry

Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.

— Stephen Fry

You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.

— Stephen Fry

There’s nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.

— Stephen Fry

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

— Stephen Fry

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
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