I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity.

It's almost a way of life. I know what makes me laugh.

I'm not sure how aware of the rest of the world I am. I live a rather sheltered existence.

It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation.

I was lightweight - that was the whole point of me.

It's a wise thing to hold back.

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

There is a single entendre, but I don't know about a triple one.

The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer.

I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left.

I didn't think of myself as a tart, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did.

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities.

I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food.

Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes.

I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books.

If I've been here a long time, I think: I must go to London and speak to someone or see a bus.

The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.

A lot of gay men have a lot of sex. That's what we do. But I've stopped all that-the revolving door into my bedroom. Promiscuity. That was of its day, really.

I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke.

I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness.

I thought they were staring at me because I was gay. But it was because I was on the telly.

The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.

Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell.

The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see.

I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity.

I am full of gratitude for my life - and for this house.

The good thing about getting older is that as you become less attractive so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement.

By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.

I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards.

Above all, I dislike vulgarity.

The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.

Since the ousting and capture of Saddam Hussein by U.S. forces, civil rights and personal freedoms have been restored in Iraq, as well as equal rights to all, not just to Saddam's entourage of terrorists.

I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.