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"It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along."
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"I absolutely realize that a celebrity spokesperson is not ideal."

"But celebrity really doesn't mean anything unless you use it for finding some way to give back and I've always felt that way."

"As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and invisible to the outside eye. It was rather entirely external, coming from the minds of others. It existed in the way people looked at him or behaved towards him. In that, being famous was no different from being gay, or Jewish, or from a visible minority: you are who you are, and then people project onto you some notion they have."

"It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous."

"Well, honestly, both my husband and I tend to ignore the tabloids. We see them every once in awhile or it comes to our attention that we are in a tabloid for one reason or another. But it's always false."

"One U.S. hit single and a hit T Shirt in 1985 does not a celebrity make."

"I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don't lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or anything like that. I don't go to showbiz parties or red-carpet events, so it all depends on whether I've got a film out. I've not been very visible in the last year or so and as a result hardly anyone stops me in the street."

"If I hadn't become a celebrity, I'd probably be an alcoholic."
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"People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me."

"There are some people that the press like to pick on and not just the gay press, but the press in general. And some people, the press just doesn't care about at all."

"I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk."

"I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades."

"It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along."
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