Quotes

I don't want people to say: 'Frank Dingenen is a homosexual'. I feel different from other gays. The problem is that there are many excesses in that world: there are gay bars in every city, but I never go to those pubs. I hate twats and guys in leather jackets

I mostly regret being born so early. People who do what I used to do now earn a lot more, which is a form of appreciation. And the fact that I came out as gay would be so much easier now.

Do I regret not having any friends from my TV career? It says almost everything about the TV world. As long as they can use you, they are on your side, then they are gone.

Just the fact that I knew I was gay from the age of fifteen, but always had to lie in Flanders during the sixties and seventies. I swear to you: that's how you learn to act. All those facets of your youth, the Catholicism in our home for example, contribute to how you evolve as an artist

A publisher once suggested that I put my misfortunes on paper. I started doing that. But it was so painful that I just got fed up with it. Everything came back. I had to stop. I thought: 'If I continue with this, they'll be able to pick me up soon".

Once I was on the cover of the magazine "Dag Allemaal". Anton Peeters was on the cover of the magazine "Story" that same week or vice versa. In his case it was written: 'Theatre taught me what love is.' In mine: 'Love taught me what theatre is.' And now, after everything that has happened, I can use the two statements.