Julian Clary Quotes

The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.

It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation.

I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

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.

The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.

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

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

I am full of gratitude for my life - and for this house.

The public has always had affection for gay entertainers.

The time was right for an out gay entertainer.

Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes

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'm not sure how aware of the rest of the world I am. I live a rather sheltered existence

I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books

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

It's a wise thing to hold back.

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness

I, as you may know, am no stranger to the organic courgette, but I still cannot work out who these gay footballers are.

I was lightweight - that was the whole point of me

There is a single entendre, but I don't know about a triple one.

I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food

I didn't think of myself as a tart, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did