There's No Sex In Middle Earth.

I Am Going Around British Secondary Schools, As A Gay Man Talking About My Life, And Encouraging Schools To Get Rid Of Homophobic Bullying And To Care For Their Gay Members Of Staff And Their Gay Students.

Baz [luhrmann] Paid Me One Of The Greatest Compliments Ever. I Don't Know Him, Really, But When I First Met Him I Was Congratulating Him On Romeo + Juliet - Which I Think Is A Wonderful Adaptation - And He Said, "oh, Well We Couldn't Have Done It Without Your Richard Iii, Which Was An Inspiration!" I've Never Quite Checked Up On The Dates To See Whether Or If, In Fact, We Did Our Film Before He Did His.

When You're On Stage With An Audience, The Director's Nowhere To Be Seen. He's Onto The Next Job.

In The Theatre, The Actor Is In Total Control. The Director Wasn't In The House Last Night, The Designer Wasn't There, The Author's Dead. It's Just Us And The Audience.

I'm Cheaper Than Anthony Hopkins. The Other Actors They Asked To Play Gandalf Wouldn't Go To New Zealand On That Money For That Length Of Time. I Thought It Would Be A Bit Of An Adventure. Tony Hopkins Didn't Think It Would Be An Adventure. Tony Is Part Of Hollywood. I'm An Eccentric English Actor, And There's A Lot Of Us Around.