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There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.

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I remember Tom Stoppard saying to me when I came out, 'I feel so sorry for you, because you'll never have children.' These days I would say, 'Well, why not, Tom?'

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You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people.

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The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.

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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.

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Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.

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Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.

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In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom.

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In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.

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In Singapore, Malcolm X type of activity would be extremely difficult because the government can be very harsh on lawbreakers.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: May 25th, 1939

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