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" 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. "

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

" To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough. "

" Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23. "

" The thing about lying is, it is quite exhausting - you have to remember a lot. "

" 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. "

" I've been reduced to drag. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" Starbucks is spreading like a cancer. "

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

" If you're an actor, there's going to be a sense of fantasy about yourself, especially in the celebrity world we live in today. You give the illusion of being in control, sexy, at ease, with never a difficult moment. Those are the basic lies that all celebrities tell. For me, they're the more dangerous lies to come to terms with. "

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

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" You cannot be politically correct in a war. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "