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When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.

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I just followed my parents' example and advice on living, which was to leave the world a better place than you found it. They were professional do-gooders, ministers of the church, social workers, teachers, and missionaries, that sort of thing.

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Fame creeps up on you.

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I'm not someone who wears shades all the time and ducks into a darkened car in case I'm recognized - that would be absolute misery.

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If you get criticized, good - I don't think people get criticized enough. People talk behind your back and they criticize you, but they don't often come up and say it to you.

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Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?

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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.

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The first film role I deliberately chose to play after I came out was a raging heterosexual, John Profumo.

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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.

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It's easier to go from theatre to film than the other way round. In film you're absolutely loved and cossetted and cared for. In film your director makes your performance. In theatre you're carrying it all.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: May 25th, 1939

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