March 2012
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Interviewer: Admit to one thing you've done in London that you've never told anyone before.
Stephen Fry: Once, taking a short cut from Piccadilly Circus to Shaftesbury Avenue, I stopped off in the Trocadero and played a video game for an hour. It was a skiing game where you wear fake skis and I got rather addicted. There was a particular score I had to get past and, once I started, I couldn't stop. And, rather embarrassingly, people did recognise me.
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Stephen Fry: No, I've never been to Japan.
Phill Jupitus: You're so tall, you'd be like Godzilla. They'd be, 'Aaiii, Stephen Fryo!'
Alan Davies: 'Mr. Fly, Mr. Fly, Mr. Fly!'
Phill Jupitus: You'd be rampaging through downtown Tokyo, 'Bahhhhh.' [pretends to knock down buildings]
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Interviewer: Give us your best tip for overcoming depression.
Stephen Fry: To regard it as being like the weather. It's not your responsibility that it's raining, but it is real when it rains, and the fact that it's raining does not mean that the rain is never going to stop. The only thing to do is to believe that, one day, it won't be raining and accept it so you can find a mental umbrella to shield yourself from the worst. The sun will eventually come up.
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Stephen Fry: What was invented at Cambridge University in 1792?
Alexander Armstrong: Was it girls?
Stephen Fry: Not . . . no, we had to wait about a hundred years before girls arrived.
Jeremy Clarkson: Was it homosexuality?
Stephen Fry: That had been going on at Cambridge, and still, I proudly claim to this day.
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Interviewer: What piece of advice would you give to Stephen Fry, aged 10.
Stephen Fry: You're not alone. Everything you feel is fine. Only feel guilty about things you have done that are mean and cheap and unkind. Don't feel guilty about what you feel, no matter what the world might think. Everyone is scared inside, not just you. That's why reading is so good. Keep doing it. Writers are people brave enough to make you feel better about being human because they're not afraid to reveal their own frailties, weaknesses, desires, failures, and appetites.
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The very act of my father’s teaching inspired in me a love of the act of...
– Moab Is My Washpot
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Of course, someone might try to make the connection between all this and acting....
– Moab Is My Washpot
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Anonymous asked: That pic is awesome! Some of the other faces in that commercial look familiar, but I can't place them. Who are they?
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The virtue of this particular lie was that it was pointless, a pure lie, its...
– Moab Is My Washpot
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Just in case you get the impression that from the age of thirteen onwards I...
– Moab Is My Washpot
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Stephen Fry on Swearing
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There are young men and women up and down the land who happily (or unhappily)...
– The Fry Chronicles
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I am incandescent with rage at the idea of horoscopes and of crystals and of the...
– Stephen Fry
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