Julian Clary Quotes
"It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation."
- Julian Clary
(Related: Motivation, Revenge)
"It's a wise thing to hold back."
- Julian Clary
"It's almost a way of life. I know what makes me laugh."
- Julian Clary
(Related: Life)
"Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes."
- Julian Clary
(Related: Being, Personality)
"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."
- Julian Clary
(Related: Desire)
"The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer."
- Julian Clary
(Related: Time, Affection, Gay, Public, Right)
"The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago."
- Julian Clary
(Related: Business, Time, Famous, Fun)
"There is a single entendre, but I don't know about a triple one."
- Julian Clary
"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."
- Julian Clary
(Related: Years)
"I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things."
- Julian Clary
(Related: Religion, Spiritual)
"The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door."
- Julian Clary
(Related: English, Living)
"I am full of gratitude for my life - and for this house."
- Julian Clary
(Related: Life, Gratitude)
"The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities."
- Julian Clary
"I'm not sure how aware of the rest of the world I am. I live a rather sheltered existence."
- Julian Clary
(Related: Existence, Rest, World)
"However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma."
- Julian Clary
(Related: Light, Loss, Youth)
"I didn't think of myself as a tart, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did."
- Julian Clary
"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."
- Julian Clary
(Related: End)
"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."
- Julian Clary
(Related: Act, Being, Gay, Nothing, Talk)
"I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food."
- Julian Clary
(Related: Food, Car, Gay)
"I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity."
- Julian Clary
(Related: Vulgarity)
"I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books."
- Julian Clary
(Related: Time, Thought, Books, Country)
"I thought they were staring at me because I was gay. But it was because I was on the telly."
- Julian Clary
(Related: Thought, Gay)
"I was lightweight - that was the whole point of me."
- Julian Clary
"I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness."
- Julian Clary
(Related: Forgiveness)
"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."
- Julian Clary
(Related: Men, Sex, Day, Gay)