Stephen fry

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

There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.

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...

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

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 is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.

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...

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a...

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...