Julian Clary Quotes

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

- Julian Clary

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

- Julian Clary

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

- Julian Clary

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

- Julian Clary

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

- Julian Clary

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.

- Julian Clary

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

- Julian Clary

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

- Julian Clary

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.

- Julian Clary

I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity.

- Julian Clary

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

- Julian Clary

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.

- Julian Clary

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

- Julian Clary

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

- Julian Clary

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.

- Julian Clary

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.

- Julian Clary

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

- Julian Clary

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

- Julian Clary

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

- Julian Clary

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

- Julian Clary

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

- Julian Clary

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

- Julian Clary

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

- Julian Clary

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

- Julian Clary

It's a wise thing to hold back.

- Julian Clary