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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy. "

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

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

" I loved looking at myself when I was very photogenic, at the very beginning of my career. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" I'm not a great poetry fan. "

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

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

" I went to boarding school at seven and cried and cried. "

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

" 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 never been any good with authority. "

" I've been reduced to drag. "

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

" I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's still a tremendous amount of homophobia in our culture. It's regrettable, it's stupid, it's heartless, and it's immoral, but there it is. "

" 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. "