Stephen fry

I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.

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.

My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.

You 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.

That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.

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.

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...

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.