It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy..

A lot of straight actors are actively searching for gay roles because it is something different to do..

The opulence of Wilde is a bit too florid for Sherlock, who is a much darker character, ... fascinated by the human condition, but also overwhelmed b….

These awful middle-class queens - which is what the gay movement has become - are so tiresome. It's all Abercrombie & Fitch and strollers..

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 ….

Why are men talking about what clothes they're wearing? It's so unmanly, I think. It's like Versailles before the Revolution, without the style..

What's happened to humour? We're becoming American. Everyone gets so angry over everything..

Hmm... Death by mini bar, how glamorous..

I have nothing to complain about.. except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man..

There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality..

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 ou….

Maybe there won't be marriage, maybe there won't be sex, but by God there'll be dancing!.

I'm not a great poetry fan..

I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing..

You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it..

The thing about lying is, it is quite exhausting - you have to remember a lot..

In Burton's day they [soldiers] were itching to get into the fray. Now it is the opposite. They are always whining about the dangers of being killed.….

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 e….

The interesting thing about Sherlock is that he is himself a reflection of that very English duality. As a drug addict, he is a criminal. But he is a….

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 choic….

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 ….