Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry is an English actor and writer.

TV: "QI" (host), "A Bit of Fry & Laurie", "Blackadder", "Kingdom", "Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive".

Films: "Wilde", "Gosford Park", "V for Vendetta", "The Hobbit" trilogy.

He has also written 4 novels, many non-fiction works and 3 volumes of autobiography.

He has been nominated for a Golden Globe, 6 Baftas and he has won a Sidewise Award for Alternate History.

He is openly gay. He is married to Elliott Spencer. When he was asked when he had realised that he is gay, he answered: "I suppose it all began when I came out of the womb. I looked back up at my mother and thought to myself: That's the last time I'm going up one of those"!

As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.Stephen Fry

But happiness is no respecter of persons.Stephen Fry

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.Stephen Fry

Happiness is no respecter of persons.Stephen Fry

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.Stephen Fry

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.Stephen Fry

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

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

I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.Stephen Fry

I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like.Stephen Fry

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

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.Stephen Fry

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.Stephen Fry

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

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.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

Stephen Fry is a famous English actor and writer, who was born on August 24, 1957. As a person born on this date, Stephen Fry is listed in our database as the 1st most popular celebrity for the day (August 24) and the 4th most popular for the year (1957).

People born on August 24 fall under the Zodiac sign of Virgo, the Virgin. Stephen Fry is the 68th most popular Virgo.

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