Stephen Fry Quotes

My plan was to release a tape, move to Arkansas, live on a farm, and make music like Bon Iver.

I feel blessed to have had such a background, where animals, food raising, harvesting and canning were a natural part of life.

Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife …

If I wasn't acting, I would own a farm. Not like growing crops but maybe have a few animals like cows, and maybe an alpaca or a llama. I would chop wood all day. I would make a living doing that; it's, like, an idealistic scenario for me. It's very contrary to my upbringing, but maybe that's the appeal to it.

It would be nice to live off the land and fix cars.

I want to get a farm where I am going to live for the rest of my life. I like the idea of a secluded place.

I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in Illinois or Wisconsin, or would I rather have like a little getaway up in the mountains of Colorado.

My grandmother's house - she ran it just like her grandmother and her great-grandmother. They didn't have electricity. They had wood stoves that never got cold.

I would love to go and live in the mountains... and make jam.

I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books.

It has long been a childhood dream of mine to have a farm.

The magic of living life for me is, and always has been, the magic of living on the land, not in the magic of money.

I actually would love to live in New York. But I need land; I need space. I'd love to move to a place where I could have a lot of land and a goat.

When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables.

I've got everything I need: a nice piece of land with hawks and owls and incredible sunsets, and the good will of my neighbors.

We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si.

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.

I can't wait to get back to the ranch and go back to easy living.

I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.

I was raised on farms by people who didn't have Wal-Mart. They had to make their own sleds, harnesses, clothing, etc.

I like the country, the peace and quiet, because the music business is so hectic.

We lived off the land in Italy.

I joke that I'm in the market for a cabin in the woods, and, at some point, I won't be joking anymore.

When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living conditions: no electricity, no running water and, of course, no computer, no phone.

Many years ago I also bought a house in Provence for about 70,000 francs. It had no electricity or running water, and no road leading to the house, but gradually we made improvements. It's my escape and I love it.