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" I don't think kids should have role models. They're disastrous. "

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" Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me. "

" I think we've been dulled by capitalism. We're just blobs now - we're so worried about how we can keep paying the lease on the car, the mortgage, the lease on the toaster and all that. You can't really think about much else. If you lose that, you lose the whole lot. "

" I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining! "

" There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality. "

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

" My idea of a holiday was following my family up the hill with my pekinese, who would skip over the heather in front of me. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't want to be carried out of a club wearing a tie-dye T-shirt and a cap on the wrong way around when I am 70, but I would like to settle down a bit. Maybe with a partner. "

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

" I've never been any good with authority. "

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

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

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

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

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

" Honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out. "

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

" 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 not a great poetry fan. "

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

" Now what do you get in the Army? Bad helmets and Basra. Your guns don't work and everyone hates you when you come back. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Starbucks is spreading like a cancer. "

" I think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows - it's so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it's so obviously a sham. "