Julian Clary quotes:

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity.

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

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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's a wise thing to hold back.

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 was lightweight - that was the whole point of me

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