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.
Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren’t very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.
There’s still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.
Starbucks is spreading like a cancer.
I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people.
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.
I’ve done a lot of period stuff but that’s mostly because, in England, we get off on a lot of period stuff, but it’s not any kind of particular choice. That’s where a lot of the work is.
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.
You cannot be politically correct in a war.
I’m not a great poetry fan.
If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt – or foster.
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.
You’re not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.
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.
Madness is a prerequisite of being in showbusiness.
I can’t think of anything worse than being brought up by two gay dads.
There’ll be a black lesbian in the White House before I’m James Bond.
My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there.
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.
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.