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" Being in Hollywood is like being in the Christian right these days. "

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" As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I would go to my mum's room, put on her nightdress and Jackie Onassis shawl, run downstairs, go outside, ring the doorbell and pretend to be one of the guests. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Mrs. So-and-So.' "

" I'm a gay man who came from the last years of illegality. That focused my whole character. I think it focused everyone's character in a way. You saw yourself as outside of the main structure. "

" I was basically adventurous, I think I wanted to try everything. "

" I think it's fun playing a part that lots of other people have played, in a way. "

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" My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there. "

" I did a couple of films, I was very lucky at the beginning of my career... and then, I never had another job here for ten years probably and I moved to Europe. "

" I smell of sweat. I don't like people smelling of all these weird things. I think deodorant is disgusting. "

" I think marriage is ghastly. "

" Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you. "

" The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business. It just doesn't work and you're going to hit a brick wall at some point. "

" I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing. "

" If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster. "

" Actors make bad lovers. Their most important kiss is for the camera. Not in a superficial way, in a really deep way. They can only give everything if they know someone is going to shout cut! "

" These awful middle-class queens - which is what the gay movement has become - are so tiresome. It's all Abercrombie & Fitch and strollers. "

" I'm not really a political animal but I am rather fascinated by the meltdown of England and America. In the end, it seems as if America might come out of it, but I'm not sure if England is ever going to recover. "

" A lot of straight actors are actively searching for gay roles because it is something different to do. "

" I find there aren't that many options as an actor. "

" You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it. "

" There are lots of women and lots of men in the business that the powers that be decide are the right people and they'll stand with them for quite a long time. "

" I don't think many actors are that good, to be honest. I certainly don't think I am. "

" I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I don't blame anyone for it becoming the way it has. It's got its own hideous natural progression, just like world events. "

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" We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself. "

" I've done a lot of period stuff but that's mostly because, in England, we get off on a lot of period stuff, but it's not any kind of particular choice. That's where a lot of the work is. "

" Why are men talking about what clothes they're wearing? It's so unmanly, I think. It's like Versailles before the Revolution, without the style. "

" I don't think I've ever tried to change anyone. I don't have the energy. "

" If you're gay or religious you're always hearing this word tolerance. It's a pathetic word. It's actually just a politically correct word for the term intolerance. "