Julian Clary Quotes

#1. It's almost a way of life. I know what makes me laugh.

Julian Clary

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

Julian Clary

#3. We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of Libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.

Philip Pullman

#4. The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer.

Julian Clary

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

Julian Clary

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

Julian Clary

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

Julian Clary

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

Julian Clary

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

Julian Clary

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

Julian Clary

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

Julian Clary

#12. I was lightweight - that was the whole point of me.

Julian Clary

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

Julian Clary

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

Julian Clary

#15. If I've been here a long time, I think: I must go to London and speak to someone or see a bus.

Julian Clary

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

Julian Clary

#17. 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.

Julian Clary

#18. Because I never set out to be an actress, I always feel so lucky and grateful. There are so many people who are really desperate to be stars, and it was completely the opposite for me - I fell into it.

Sophia Myles

#19. Henry Ford, who despite his immense wealth never owned a Cadillac. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#20. 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.

Julian Clary

#21. I thought they were staring at me because I was gay. But it was because I was on the telly.

Julian Clary

#22. It's a wise thing to hold back.

Julian Clary

#23. Your voice is vibrant for only a certain part of your life. There are some records I've always wanted to make, and I don't know if I want to waste this time beating on the door of the charts.

Kathy Mattea

#24. 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.

Julian Clary

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

Julian Clary

#26. Fear to do base unworthy things is valour; If they be done to us, to suffer them Is valour too.

Walter Scott

#27. There isn't going to be a 'next lover,'" Grant said automatically, outraged by the idea. "I'm the only man she's going to have.

Lisa Kleypas

#28. 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.

Julian Clary

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

Julian Clary

#30. I look like Julian Clary on steroids.

Jo Brand

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

Julian Clary

#32. 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.

Julian Clary

#33. The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities.

Julian Clary

#34. I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity.

Julian Clary

#35. Let us not be afraid of decreasing. It is like the moon, we see the moon increasing and decreasing, but it is always the moon.

Nhat Hanh

#36. If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.

Will Rogers

#37. I would've loved to have children and I'm really good with kids, but I just didn't want to commit to anything when I had cancer. I didn't want to plan for the future.

Frazer Hines

#38. You're too old for this type of living,' he told

Wilbur Smith

#39. 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.

Julian Clary