Now is the time for guts and guile.

It's all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another.

Everything was handed to me - looks, fame, wealth, honour, love. I rarely had to fight for anything

Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.

All of my life I've spent a lot of time with gay men - Montgomery Clift, Jimmy Dean, Rock Hudson - who are my colleagues, coworkers, confidantes, my closest friends, but I never thought of who they slept with! They were just the people I loved. I could never understand why they couldn't be afforded the same rights and protections as all of the rest of us. There is no gay agenda, it's a human agenda

I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me.

Any home where there is love constitutes a family and all families should have the same legal rights, including the right to marry and have or adopt children. Why shouldn't gay people be able to live as open and freely as everybody else?