I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways.
A lot of comedies are based on the reaction shot. You have one person doing something stupid and one person is generally the straight man, and the laughs generally come on the reaction of the straight man to the funny thing the other person has done.
To a straight man, the notion of walking around as a coiffed, waxed, nail-polish-wearing, lispy dude is uproariously absurd. As people, we find absurdities funny. That's our first step in making sense of them.
In my planet, fashion, I'm the only straight man.
A gay man can be friends with a straight man. That can happen.
If a straight man dresses well, chances are he's not straight.
All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.
When I'm filming a documentary, I feel like I should be the straight man, watching with a raised eyebrow.
Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.
For a straight man, I seem to have to kiss an awful lot of men!
Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one.
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.
I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.
My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name.
I want to be a man who serves my family, a man who increases justice in my community. I want to be all of those things, and yet it is just below the surface that I want to strangle somebody when they cut in front of me on the freeway.
And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.
My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean... For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood.
It seems the most common thing for serial interventionists to do these days is to lob the term 'isolationist' at anyone who does not agree with their latest folly, and then set up a straw man about those people not wanting to be involved in the world.
