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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.'

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Ring, Bed, Mum, Guests

I think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows - it's so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it's so obviously a sham.

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Think, I Think, Having, Rudimentary

I went to boarding school at seven and cried and cried.

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School, Seven, Cried, Boarding School

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

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Career, Come, Honestly, Advise

The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!

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Wanting, War Zone, Whole, Whining

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.

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Living, Like, Forced, Marvelous

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.

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Fact, Some, Film Business, Brick

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

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Think, Like, I Think, Deodorant

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.

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Always, Religious, Correct, Tolerance

A lot of straight actors are actively searching for gay roles because it is something different to do.

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Searching, Straight, Lot, Actively

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.

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Stupid, Still, Amount, Regrettable

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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Middle-Class, Which, Awful, Gay Movement

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

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Parent, Would, Adopt, Impulse

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

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Christian, Hollywood, Like, Christian Right

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.

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Been, I Think, About, Toaster

To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough.

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Needs, Combat, Gene, Unimaginable

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.

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England, Sure, Recover, Meltdown

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

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World, Fit, Allowed, Eccentric

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.

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Business, Decide, Them, Quite A Long Time

I've been reduced to drag.

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Been, Reduced, Drag

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

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Jealousy, Amazing, Clarity, Psychotic

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!

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Deep, Give, Cut, Camera

There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.

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Deal, Homosexuality, Still, Great Deal

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

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I Am, Am, Slightest, Panic

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.

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Settle, Maybe, Bit, Cap

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

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Think, Role, Models, Disastrous

I'm a gay man who came from the last years of illegality. That focused my whole character. I think it focused everyone's character in a way. You saw yourself as outside of the main structure.

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Think, Last, I Think, Structure

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.

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Woman, Big, Which, Gay

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

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Actor, Find, Many, Options

Why are men talking about what clothes they're wearing? It's so unmanly, I think. It's like Versailles before the Revolution, without the style.

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Think, Like, I Think, Versailles

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