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

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.

I'm trying to get to a deep future, but in order to get to a deep future, I had to think about the deep past.

Never settle for the path of least resistance.

At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.

I go on a hunting safari at least once a year to Botswana, which is fantastic because we have a huge area of wilderness entirely to ourselves. My island covers roughly 55 acres, which again I have to myself, with nearly half a kilometre of private beach with my own jetties and boats.

Saying goodbye is a little like dying.

I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon.

Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.

I grew up in a house with a lot of kids, brothers and sisters. So I don't mind a lot of talking, yelling, playing. I can tune most of that out.

Amazon webhosting dropped Wikileaks as a customer after receiving a complaint from U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, despite the fact that Wikileaks had not been charged, let alone convicted, of any crime.

My whole career, I've tried to bounce back and forth between everything, and not get typed out. I've done a pretty good job of not getting typed.

In preparation for a career in academic medicine, I worked as a medical house officer at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital from 1966 to 1968 and then joined Ira Pastan's laboratory at the National Institutes of Health as a Clinical Associate.

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.

You know how every model is like, 'I do yoga.' Well, I find horses have the same effect.

Technology is a major tool in exploring and challenging your creativity, but it can also overtake your creativity... My mind goes very fast, and I can see all kinds of images that would be spectacular on the screen. But they would cost so much money, and would they really make the story that much better?

I think the best directors provide you with a safe environment where they can instill you with confidence and allow you to try things out and not feel like you're failing or that you're doing it wrong.

Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

Go and get your things, "he said." "Dreams mean work."

Sure, I've felt racism. I think everybody has prejudice. When I was growing up, the dark Mexican kids weren't allowed in the public swimming pool in Dallas. My light-skinned friend got in, and he laughed at us. It didn't seem like a big deal, because we didn't know any different. So I never ran into anything that actually scarred me.

To make the most of your money, I recommend sticking with mutual funds that don't charge a commission when you buy or sell.

Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country.

The sooner we put Egypt on the right track, the sooner we would be able to have an Egypt that is modern, that is moderate, and that is acting as a beacon for freedom and liberty across the Arab world.