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
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
If I’ve been here a long time, I think: I must go to London and speak to someone or see a bus. – Julian Clary
The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities. – Julian Clary
I’ve found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things. – Julian Clary
It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation. – Julian Clary
I’m not sure how aware of the rest of the world I am. I live a rather sheltered existence. – Julian Clary
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
The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer. – Julian Clary
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
I thought they were staring at me because I was gay. But it was because I was on the telly. – Julian Clary
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
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
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
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
