Quotes

When a virgin blushes, she already knows too much

I think we all have a dark side to us. I find that I can't trust sunny-natured people, people who are constantly sunny. I think that's major denial.

[on Stephanie Beacham] She's [got] spectacular breasts!

[2017, on his sexuality and starring in Dynasty (1981)] Oh no. No. I wasn't out, are you kidding? The show, the time, the fact I was a leading man to look at. No. No. No. Rock [Hudson] only came out when he got sick. This was an utterly different time. Richard Chamberlain, who I know very slightly, had what I think was the right attitude to it. If you look like a leading man, why bother coming out? You don't have to. The fact is half your audience is women and most of those women are straight, and this is who you are playing to especially with a show like Dynasty, or a soap opera. You're also a source of fantasy. Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi are wonderful people, but pardon me, how many audience members fantasize about fucking either one of them? Really. It had a lot to do with what you looked like, I'm afraid. It's not something I've ever announced. I'm assuming that people know, and now that I'm my age that's fine. I don't go out of my way because it's my generation, I think. I'm probably as homophobic as any gay man alive because of my background.