Stephen Fry
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"Stephen John Fry" is an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist.

After a troubled childhood and adolescence, during which he was expelled from two schools and spent three months in prison for credit card fraud, he secured a place at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he studied English literature. While at university, Fry became involved with the Cambridge Footlights, where he met his long-time collaborator Hugh Laurie. As half of the comic double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry & Laurie, and took the role of Jeeves (with Laurie playing Wooster) in Jeeves and Wooster.

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Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Stephen Fry on being gay: "My first words, as I was being born... I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.'".

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

If I had a large amount of money I should found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily.

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.

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.