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" To be allowed for the first time in your later career to play leading parts in extremely popular movies is not a situation to worry about. "

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" Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job. "

" When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it. "

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

" 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. "

" I certainly don't disparage someone whose attitude towards their work is utterly different from mine - that's up to them. "

" You mustn't upstage the bride. "

" Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different. "

" 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. "

" You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people. "

" 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. "

" Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel. "

" I got intrigued by working in small theatres. "

" 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. "

" Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played. "

" It's my impression that I've done every job that I've been asked to do. "

" If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy. "

" There are a lot of actors - I'm probably one - who are most at home when they're on stage. "

" I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.' "

" In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself. "

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

" If I was a star, it would be difficult to go off and do 'Coronation Street.' So I guess I'm not a star. "

" My ambition is to get better as an actor. "

" Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that. "

" I used to comfort myself when I became an actor that it was a useful job, entertaining people. And it was important to do it as well as you possibly can. "

" 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 don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.' "

" In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom. "

" There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that. "

" There's something wholesome about the theatre. "

" 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. "