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" I live for the text. It's my job. "

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" I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims. "

" You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues. "

" I've always felt that 'X-Men' was about something serious. It wasn't just fantasy. "

" People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates. "

" Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them. "

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" Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work. "

" There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore. "

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" Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic. "

" Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well. "

" I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on. "

" How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play. "

" The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses. "

" Who does understand life? "

" I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else. "

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" I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm. "

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" I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the 'U.K. Sunday Times,' who championed me as Shakespeare's Richard II at the 1969 Edinburgh Festival. "

" I certainly wouldn't define myself as a northerner. I'm not even really sure what that means. I've lived in London for 50 years. I wasn't born here, but I have spent most of my life here. So I don't make much of it, to be honest. I'm just myself. "

" I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't. "

" Quakers are terrific. "