Julian Peter McDonald Clary Quotes

Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes.

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.

It’s almost a way of life. I know what makes me laugh.

It’s a wise thing to hold back.

It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation.

If I’ve been here a long time, I think: I must go to London and speak to someone or see a bus.

I’ve found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

I’m not sure how aware of the rest of the world I am. I live a rather sheltered existence.

I’m currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness.

I was lightweight – that was the whole point of me.

I thought they were staring at me because I was gay. But it was because I was on the telly.

I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I’m 50 and write books.

I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity.

I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food.

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.

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.

I didn’t think of myself as a tart, but I wouldn’t argue with anyone who did.

I am full of gratitude for my life – and for this house.

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

A lot of gay men have a lot of s*x. That’s what we do. But I’ve stopped all that-the revolving door into my bedroom. Promiscuity. That was of its day, really.