Quotes from Julian Clary

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

I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

It's a wise thing to hold back.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.