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" 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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" I love working in New York. "

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" When I appeared in 'Coronation Street,' I lived in Manchester and enjoyed it very much. "

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" I have lots of fans, they are mostly under the age of 12, boys and girls. "

" Bill Gallagher's new version of 'The Prisoner' is an enthralling commentary on modern culture. It is witty, intelligent and disturbing. I am very excited to be involved. "

" Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay. "

" The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted. "

" When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing. "

" I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf. "

" 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'll never put my memoirs in print. "

" If you get criticized, good - I don't think people get criticized enough. People talk behind your back and they criticize you, but they don't often come up and say it to you. "

" The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry. "

" I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round. "

" The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears. "

" I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work. "

" I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me. "

" When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore. "

" There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've learnt how to do it. And I still have enough energy to do it. "

" On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact. "

" I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out. "

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" Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole. "

" I remember Tom Stoppard saying to me when I came out, 'I feel so sorry for you, because you'll never have children.' These days I would say, 'Well, why not, Tom?' "

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

" My own death threats have declined considerably. "