June 2012
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RAO: Are there any shows that have happened where you just completely lost control and just can't get it together? I mean, it's very funny.
FRY: Oh, yes. I mean, sometimes I just can't get a sentence out. I mean, there's a clip somewhere, which does very well on YouTube, I believe, in which I'm trying to express something about the Acropolis. And I just can't get it out. And the more I try, the more impossible it becomes. And it just got more and more absurd, and they kept it all in. And it just is about five minutes of me trying to say "Parthenon".
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“Those who think manic depression is a “celebrity disorder” made up by tabloid...”
– Mind Out, The New Adventures of Stephen Fry
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Q: What has life taught you?
Stephen Fry: The major lesson of life seems to be that just when you think you've understood things, something happens to turn your understanding upside down and inside out. So I suppose life has taught me nothing. Which is as it should be.
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Question: In real life, do you see yourself more as Jeeves or Wooster?
Stephen Fry: I'm certainly not adroit, efficient, neat, quiet on my feet and respectful like Jeeves. On the other hand, I do tend to remember quotations and regurgitate facts like him. I attempt the sunniness of disposition of Bertie Wooster, but can't achieve the same altruism and sweetness of nature. A mongrel hybrid of both, I suppose. A sort of Jooster. Why take two Wodehouse characters into the shower, when you can simply Jooster And Go?
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“One of the most unattractive human traits, and so easy to fall into, is...”
– The Fry Chronicles
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“I swing from a hyper state in which, quite far from feeling self-disgust and...”
– Stephen Fry (CNN, September 22, 2010)
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Stephen Fry discusses literature with a Valley...
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Phill: I can never remember the damn things, but up until, sort of, my teen years, I used to dream I was being chased around an empty football stadium by a giant monkey. And then he'd stop chasing me and we'd sit down, and we'd just sit down and watch the game. In an empty stadium.
Stephen: I've got a thing about football: It represents your goals, fairly obviously I suppose, your aspirations. But before the game can begin, before you can start to fulfill your dreams, Phill, if I can call you Phill . . .
Phill: I must quieten the inner monkey?
Stephen: No, you alone, because the stadium is empty--that's the point--you alone have to confront the thing you fear most, which is the big monkey. And what is the big monkey? You're running from your adult self: large, hairy, lust-filled . . . Yes. Yes. You're gay!
Phill: I'm gay.
Stephen: That's what it is!
Johnny: It's so obvious, Phill.
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Stephen Fry: Six year olds, I mean, probably cry 70 or 80 times a day.
Phill Jupitus: 70 or 80 times? ...What does Uncle Stephen do?
Stephen Fry: ... I try to teach them Latin.
Alan Davies: 'Not the British Museum again!'
Phill Jupitus: 'I don't like foie gras!'
Alan Davies: 'This is Prosecco and this is real champagne.' [mimics crying]
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