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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Actors make bad lovers. Their most important kiss is for the camera. Not in a superficial way, in a really deep way. They can only give everything if they know someone is going to shout cut! "

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

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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've never been any good with authority. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I've been reduced to drag. "