Top 49 Quotes & Sayings by David Furnish

I came from a happy family with loving parents, so my associations with marriage and children were all happy, positive things that brought me comfort as a child, which I wanted in my life.

Knowing your HIV status is so important for your future health and that of your loved ones.

Kids will often see something different and feel insecure about it because they don't understand it.

Putin is lovely.

My parents have been married for 50-plus years, and I wanted to have what they had.

When 1.2 million people come together for Pride in Toronto, that's great, but we now need to start paying it forward and thinking about the rest of the world.

Everyone should be tested. Whenever they have a check-up, they should test for HIV, because if we can get to a point in our society where everyone is automatically tested, nobody will fall through the net.

I was definitely teased and bullied in my junior school.

The reality is, if a woman is married to man with a title, she gets a title. I think everybody should have the same opportunities and the same privileges and the same honours.

It's interesting how Rod Stewart can father a child at 65, and a straight, single footballer named Cristiano Ronaldo can arrange to have a surrogate have a baby, and neither of them receives any criticism.

It's very important in any relationship that one partner doesn't lose themselves in the other, and that's very easy if you're involved with a celebrity.

One of the reasons Elton and I entered into our partnership - the first day it became legal in Britain to do so - is that we felt it was an opportunity to protect ourselves with official recognition of our relationship.

I love diamond jewellery on men, and pocket scarves, cravats, cufflinks. The trick is to throw it together so it's natural and not contrived. That's real style.

We want to make sure that our boys realize that there are all different kinds of families, and all families are great.

People don't ask me for my autograph.

Fear and ignorance fuel so much homophobia.

We all live by example.

I think if we could just level the playing field in life as much as possible, then we'd all be in a much better place.

When you're in a relationship with a very famous person, you have to make compromises.

I think if you have an opportunity to live by example and make people aware of positive changes in our society, I think it's a great thing.

I've had many friends over the years who have been in same-sex relationships, and the family denies hospital visitations when one is sick. Or when the estate is settled and people who have built a life together has everything taken away from them either by the families or the taxman.

Unfortunately, celebrity is a powerful thing. It can influence people, but if it can influence people in a good way, then that's a great thing.

I think we all need to believe in hope: that if we have dreams and if we have ambitions and if we have skills and talents - that if you really put your heart into something and you work at it hard enough - that you can make your dreams come true.

In strictly medical terms, there's no difference between HIV and diabetes; they're not curable, but they're very, very highly treatable, and early information is power. The only thing - literally the only thing - that is different is the stigma. And we have to overcome it, because it is now the only reason people are dying.

We absolutely need more role models. I think we need more people to come forward and be proud of who they are.

We have a lot of great lesbian role models in tennis. I mean, Martina Navratilova in her heyday was probably the greatest female athlete on the planet. Martina just kept breaking every rule. That's a great role model.

When Stephen Harper was elected as the new Conservative Prime Minister - and he talked about repealing gay marriage and putting it to a vote in the House of Commons - Elton and I talked about getting married in Canada to make a statement, for ideological and political reasons.

A good art collection is emblematic of the people collecting it.

I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.

I'm a great pop culture lover, and I'm not a snob.

When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you collision crash it with the low art of the tacky garden gnome, you're going to have lots and lots of opportunity for fun and putting your tongue very firmly in your cheek.

You have to acknowledge that films that have a strong concept and are easily marketed to people are the ones that stand the biggest chance of success.

I ran away from small-town Canada to London; I ran away from my family because I didn't think I could be the person I was.

If we can make HIV testing a normal part of looking after your health, we can truly envisage an AIDs-free future in the U.K.

Out of ignorance and fear comes judgment and division.

I can't say to Elton, 'Hey, let's walk around the corner and have a coffee.' Someone as well-known as that can't go anywhere in the world without being recognised. Elton has written the soundtrack to a lot of people's lives, so they feel a kinship with him, so they come up, and that does colour things.

I think people get fearful of things they don't know or understand.

I had a lot of failed relationships, a lot of unhappiness, a lot of shame and embarrassment, bad self-image stuff.

Animation films are about entertainment and about fun for the whole family, and if you went too far down a dark path, it's not what people, I think, expect from a great animated film.

I'd spent my twenties trying to be everything to everybody. I had my family, my straight friends, and I was starting to develop a gay circle of friends. I was seeing some men, seeing some women, and trying to sort it all out.

I like Madonna's music but not her movies. She should stick to what she is good at.

I haven't done much art shopping in Vegas. It tends to be from galleries that are London- or L.A.- or New York-based. We've never had someone standing over our shoulder telling us something is a good investment.

People go forward in life. Bitterness and grudges and resentments only poison it.

I was neeeever a cool kid.

I'm always very proud when people ask me about being a Canadian.

The past is past; what's gone on has gone on.

I studied really, really hard, rather boringly.

If you look at 'Gnomeo & Juliet,' the movie's message essentially says it doesn't matter if you're a 'red' or a 'blue': at the end of the day, parents should love their children and want what's best for them.

I am for 100% equality across the board for everybody, in all walks of life.