Quotes by Julian Clary

• If I've been here a long time, I think: I must go to London and speak to someone or see a bus.
• It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation.
• It's a wise thing to hold back.
• It's almost a way of life. I know what makes me laugh.
• Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes.
• 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.
• The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer.
• The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.
• There is a single entendre, but I don't know about a triple one.
• 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.
• I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.
• The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.
• I am full of gratitude for my life - and for this house.
• The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities.
• I'm not sure how aware of the rest of the world I am. I live a rather sheltered existence.
• However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.
• I didn't think of myself as a tart, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did.
• 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.
• 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.
• I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food.
• I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity.
• I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books.
• I thought they were staring at me because I was gay. But it was because I was on the telly.
• I was lightweight - that was the whole point of me.
• I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness.
• 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.