Julian Clary
The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.Collection: Famous
I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness.Collection: Forgiveness
I didn't think of myself as a tart, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did.
It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation.
The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.
I am full of gratitude for my life - and for this house.
There is a single entendre, but I don't know about a triple one.
It's a wise thing to hold back.
The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer.
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.
The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities.
Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes.
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.
It's almost a way of life. I know what makes me laugh.
If I've been here a long time, I think: I must go to London and speak to someone or see a bus.
I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.
I'm not sure how aware of the rest of the world I am. I live a rather sheltered existence.
I was lightweight - that was the whole point of me.
I thought they were staring at me because I was gay. But it was because I was on the telly.
I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books.
I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity.
I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food.
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.
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.
However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.
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.
I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay foodCollection: Gay
I, as you may know, am no stranger to the organic courgette, but I still cannot work out who these gay footballers are.Collection: Gay
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 jokeCollection: Laughing
My dresser and I have the hots for the new rugby ace Danny Cipriani. We have a shrine in my dressing room - press photos of him on the field looking swarthy and fit, and snaps of our boy emerging from Mayfair nightclubs, looking sexy and dishevelled.Collection: Sexy
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 leftCollection: Gay
Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakesCollection: Personality
I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgivenessCollection: Forgiveness
I'm not sure how aware of the rest of the world I am. I live a rather sheltered existenceCollection: World
I didn't think of myself as a tart, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who didCollection: Thinking
I think Australians like a bit of vulgarityCollection: Thinking
I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write booksCollection: Country
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 seeCollection: Getting Older
I was lightweight - that was the whole point of meCollection: Whole