About Stephen Fry: Stephen John Fry is an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist.
To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
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.
The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depre...
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.
If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it.
There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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.
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.
My parents were marvelously educated people.
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.
Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world.
If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneline...
You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children.
He had just reached the pavement and gave now the smallest, quickest of glances back up the hill, in our direction. Our eyes didn’t meet, but I saw that he was even more beautiful than I had supposed. Even more beautiful than I had ever imagined it...
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.
Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
