I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.

I am the last of Britain's stately homos.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

In Manhattan, when you're out of the front door, you're on, and you have to be ready to smile and speak to people.

I stay in one room, and it's easier to live there, to control it, to make it warm. It seems to me a convenient way to live, and it's cheap.

I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, "What did they teach you?" And she said, "They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room." I'm happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I've never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I'm told to say.

The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.