Inspirational Quotes by Stephen Fry (English Actor, Writer)

Stephen John Fry (b.1957) is an English actor, writer, director, and broadcaster. He is known mainly for his virtuosic command and comical abuse of the English language—in both speech and writing.

Born in London, Fry studied at Queen’s College, Cambridge, where he appeared in over 30 plays. He wrote his first play Latin (1980,) which won a Fringe First at the Edinburgh Festival of that year and appeared with the Cambridge Footlights revue. He also wrote the book for the long-running West End-musical Me and My Girl (1984.)

Fry and his Cambridge Footlights associate Hugh Laurie appeared in A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1989–95,) Jeeves and Wooster (1990–93,) and the film Peter’s Friends (1992.) Fry was also on television in Stalag Luft (1993) and Cold Comfort Farm (1995.)

Fry’s stage appearances include Forty Years On (1984,) The Common Pursuit (1988,) and Look Look (1990.) He was in the films A Handful of Dust (1988,) A Fish Called Wanda (1988,) and the Oscar Wilde biopic Wilde (1996.) His bestselling novels include The Liar (1991,) The Hippopotamus (1994,) and Making History (1996.)

Fry caused a media sensation in 1995 when he walked out of the Simon Gray play Cell Mates (1995,) before its opening in London’s West End, and vanished to Belgium without a trace. He later ascribed these events to a bipolar disorder and embarked on a campaign to help raise awareness for the challenges of bipolar disorder; he made the documentary The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive (2006.) In 2003, he launched the panel quiz programme QI.

Fry is also outspoken about suicide following an attempt to kill himself in 2012.

Fry’s multivolume autobiographies are Moab Is My Washpot (1997,) The Fry Chronicles (2010,) and More Fool Me (2014.)

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