Stephen Fry Video

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called "guessing what was at the other side of the hill."

Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape.

I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera -- both of which I did as soon as I left the [Acting] Company and was starving.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Temperance is a bridle of gold.

I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world. I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence. I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts.

I just don’t quite understand it [the press], really. I don’t understand the animal. It’s a strange, roundabout way of selling something; it leaves a foul taste... The thing that fascinates me is: who cares what an actor thinks?

I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the f word.

I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

He was the future, once...

One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education, never.

Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.

"There aren't many of us left where I come from." "And where is that?" asked Mrs. Brown. The bear looked round carefully before replying. "Darkest Peru."

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.”

I was called up in 1942. Having been born in Berlin, schooled in Devon, London and Berkshire, and lived in Suffolk, I ended up in the Highland Light Infantry.

Courage consists of the power of self-recovery.

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.

Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.

I, on the other hand, am a fully-rounded human being, with a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me.

I would not have known at the time, for I was too young to realize that I was supposed to have a live-in father, just as I was too young to know that I needed a race. From an improbably short span it seems that my father fell under the same spell as my mother and her parents; and for the first six years of my life, even as that spell was broken and the worlds that they thought they'd left behind reclaimed each of them, I occupied the place where their dreams had been.

When someone told her "You're the only girl who I know who compliments herself" she replied "I think it's sweet that I do it, though"

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.