Quotes

I love playing with words. I think all my life what I'm unconsciously doing is struggling against respectability. That is my bete noire, my raison d'etre or whatever the f*** you call it.

Acting, for me, has always been a reaction -- a neurotic reaction to life. When life gets too puzzling I start acting.

It was the breakthrough moment for me but it wasn't shown very widely because it had a homosexual theme to it. It was a risky part to take, but then I was very political and, although I am not gay myself, I really did care about the trouble my gay friends were having. People were being put in prison, beaten up, blackmailed, so when that job came up I thought, 'I'm going to play it as a man who is in love, not a flapping, limp-wristed camp thing that everyone can laugh at.' - DS - discussing his gay role in the ground-breaking film The Leather Boys (1964).