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People expect me to be stupid. I'm not saying I'm Stephen Fry, but it is amazing the perception people have.

Depression is an illness. It is not a ticket to genius. It is not an interesting personality quirk. It is horrible and all-consuming and really hurts.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

Stephen Fry is a master exponent of the English tongue. Some people might think that he is the most irritating man in Britain, but my wife and I love him all the same.

The one thing we do know is that the chemical imbalance theory - the theory that people get depressed when they don't have enough serotonin in their brain - we know that that's wrong.

The reason so many intelligent and creative people suffer from depression is that when you take the risk of being fully conscious, you open Pandora's box, and you can't close it again.

It's safe to say that all poets are manic-depressives, but fiction writers are on that scale, too.

I.Q. deficiency. There are some people who are an order of fries short of a Happy Meal, and what is often a characteristic about every one of these people is that they don't know it. They have no idea how incompetent or stupid they are. It's the exact opposite. They have the loftiest, highest self-image.

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.