An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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.
But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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 westerns of all time in Rio Bravo.
But there is such a thing as what is called the thunderbolt. It's just simply a huge love which has nothing to do with reason.
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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.
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
I could rent a room, paint it black, bolt on a few chains and call it my punishment room, Then have men in posing pouches in the background.
I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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.
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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.
I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
I'm afraid I was very much the traditionalist. I went down on one knee and dictated a proposal which my secretary faxed over straight away.
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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.
Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
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.
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's a wonderful journey to take.
Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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 form.
That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world.
There's a piano in my house, and I play when no one's around - but as soon as anyone listens, my confidence goes and I lose my sense of rhythm.
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.
We feel guilty about our own inadequacies emotionally, and even someone as great as Oscar Wilde is no better off than we are.
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.
When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
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.
In the BBC poll for the Greatest Living Icon, Stephen was ranked 6th.
As a teenager, Stephen wrote to PG Wodehouse, and received an autographed photograph in response.
Stephen Fry's Classic FM show The Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Mustic with Stephen Fry was nominated for a "Sony Radio Award" in 2003.
Stephen abstained from sex for 16 years due to a lack of personal confidence.
Stephen's specialist subject when he appeared on "Mastermind" was Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.
Much of Stephen's mother's family were sent to concentration camps during World War II. They were Jewish.
Stephen's new show Kingdom is filmed in Swaffham, where Stephen actually lives.
Stephen has written the following novels: The Liar (1991), The Hippopotamus (1994), Making History (1996), The Star's Tennis Balls (2000), aka Revenge.
At Cambridge, Stephen wrote a play called Latin!
Along with Emma Thompson, Stephen led workshops for aspiring filmmakers at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg which took place on the 14th and 15th February 2007.
In September 2006, BBC aired Fry's two- part documentary The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive, in which he recounts his own experiences with manic depression (also known as bipolar disorder) and talks with several people, including
Fry's two favorite quotations are "We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" (Oscar Wilde) and "If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the kind of people he gives it to." (Unknown).
If he could invite anyone he wished to a hypothetical dinner party, Fry would invite Oscar Wilde, for his wit and charm, and Queen Elizabeth I, because she was also very witty and an extraordinary woman.
Bright Young Things (2003), Fry's directorial debut, was nominated for awards from the British Independent Film Awards and the Emden International Film Festival. Fry also produced the movie; wrote the screenplay, adapted from the Evelyn Waugh novel Vile Bodies; and wrote one of the songs for the film.
Fry was nominated for the Best Actor Golden Globe for his performance as Oscar Wilde, the title role in Wilde (1997). For that performance, he won the Best Actor award at Seattle International Film Festival, and was nominated for awards from the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film and the International Press Academy Satellite Awards.
Stephen has been characterised by his best friend, actress Emma Thompson as "90 percent gay, 10 percent other."
Stephen is a noted pilot, and owns a classic biplane.
Stephen is regarded in the UK as 'Britain's Favourite Teddy Bear' and is a keen teddy bear collector himself.
Stephen narrates the audiobook versions (British releases) of the wildly popular Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling.
Stephen is regularly seen smoking a pipe.
A book has recently been published entitled Tish and Pish: how to be of a speakingness like Stephen Fry. It's a humorous tribute to Stephen's wonderful use of the English language.
Stephen is a major Cricket fan.
Stephen admits that he is a MAC fanatic, Usenet lurker, and a Internet/WWW enthusiast.
Stephen is the son of Marianne Fry and physicist/inventor Alan Fry.
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