If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed - I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart..

[There's] nothing special about an actor's imagination, except that he uses it a lot..

I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was ne….

My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out..

Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy..

I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as I enjoy playing a wide variety of chara….

Baz [Luhrmann] paid me one of the greatest compliments ever. I don't know him, really, but when I first met him I was congratulating him on ROMEO + J….

To know you are in the company with people who love and care for each other, as well as for whatever they are working on, is almost essential..

When you're on stage with an audience, the director's nowhere to be seen. He's onto the next job..

I suspect the base that I'm working from is not particularly one of inquiry, but of memory of what I did last time..

We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult..

Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be….

Television can take anything. It can take the most exaggerated of storytelling forms..

The audience's expectations are ever-present..

Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel..

Actors are merely the medium through which a story happens..

On the day after 9/11, I walking through the smoke and the smells of New York. There were knots of policemen everywhere. As I went past one officer, ….

You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you d….

I've had enough of being a gay icon! I've had enough of all this hard work, because, since I came out, I keep getting all these parts, and my career'….

There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've l….

I've always longed for the theatre and acting to be popular. No actor wants to play to an empty house. We only do it for an audience. The more the me….