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I learned that coming out was crucial to self-esteem.

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Anyone in public life who comes out, comes out primarily for themselves, and their life is immediately improved. That's what happened to me.

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Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.

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If we just made one movie, 'The Hobbit,' the fact is that all the fans, the eight-, nine- and 10-year-old boys, they would watch it 1,000 times. Now, they've got three films they can watch 1,000 times.

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One school invited me down, as two pupils had come out, and the headmaster didn't know what to do about it. I said, 'How many students here are gay?' and he said, 'Just these two.' Clearly not. 'How many gay members of staff have you got?' He had no idea. And this was a concerned man.

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Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.

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There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.

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If I say often enough that I'm going to be in 'King Kong,' I'm hoping that Peter Jackson will take the hint.

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The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.

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I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: May 25th, 1939

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