The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy.

I don't have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit

On Michael Jackson and child stardom: He had one of the worst childhoods ever. I think I had the second.

I have never wanted to be a queen! Cleopatra was a role, and I am an actor, so it was fun to play one, but it's not real.

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 think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

It's not the having, it's the getting.