Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Franco

I think as far as straight actors playing gay roles, "Brokeback Mountain" was a big breakthrough. I'm pretty sure when they were casting that movie that - I think the story is, like you know, 10 to 15 other actors turned it down.

Jake Gyllenhaal

It's amazing how the world has changed because, at that time [2005], a lot of actors didn't want to play a gay role.

Jon Hamm

I'm not gay, and I'm not a superhero

Jon Bon Jovi

Some of my best friends are gay guys, and they said, "You're so straight, we're not interested."

Johnny Vegas

There's lots of stuff about me being a fan of Cliff but not being gay. Which suggests that he is, but he's not. Anyway, this is Channel 4, let their lawyers sort it out.

John Cena

Welcome to Smackdown. This is where the franchise plays. That's Tazz, he's a thug. And that's Michael Cole, he's gay.

Barack Obama

I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

Ellen Page

In a lot of states LGBT people can be fired for just being gay or for just being trans. That's totally legal.

Ellen Page

I love travel shows. I love Anthony Bourdain. I love No Reservations. I always learn so much, and I wanted to see one from a gay perspective that explored LGBT communities around the world.

Ellen Page

I'm not naive to the fact that I'm an out gay actor.

Ellen Page

You think you're in a place where you're all 'I'm thrilled to be gay, I have no issues about being gay anymore, I don't feel shame about being gay,' but you actually do. You're just not fully aware of it. I think I still felt scared about people knowing. I felt awkward around gay people; I felt guilty for not being myself.

Randy Harrison

A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a gay club setting. It's just ironic that I represent that somehow.

Randy Harrison

I wasn't dating anyone. I was hyper-focused on acting. So I didn't bring a guy to the prom. I was the lone gay person as far as I knew.

Rick Santorum

This is common sense. This is nature, and what we're trying to do is defy nature because a certain group of people want to be affirmed by society.

Tammy Baldwin

There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it's now okay to express ourselves publicly. We make that day by doing things publicly until it's simply the way things are.

Tammy Bruce

For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.

Sylvia Plath

Masks are the order of the day - and the least I can do is cultivate the illusion that I am gay, serene, not hollow and afraid.

Stephanie Rice

I'm not homophobic at all and I have a lot of gay friends.

Stephen Chbosky

It's too bad you're not gay. Then again, if you were gay, I would never date you. You're a mess." You know, Patrick? If I were gay, I'd want to date you." Of course.

Stephen Colbert

Am I proud of being straight? No. You know why? Because if I start acting proud, that's going to make me seem kind of gay.

Stephen Colbert

If you are a hermaphrodite, it is physically impossible to be gay.

Stephen Colbert

If God wanted us to accept gays, he'd have made us compassionate

Stephen Colbert

If Obama can force you to get health insurance just by calling it a tax, than there is nothing to stop him from making you gay marry an illegal immigrant wearing a condom on a hydroponic pot farm powered by solar energy.

Stephen Colbert

In the beginning, a monkey evolutioned gay marriage.

Stephen Colbert

There once was a man name Barack, Whose re-election came as a shock. He raised the taxes I pay, And then turned marriage gay. And now he's coming after your glock.

Stephen Colbert

I can't be gay! I'm a happily married conservative, just like Ted Haggard and Larry Craig.

Sonia Sotomayor

So they can create a class they don't like-here, homosexuals-or a class that they consider is suspect in the marriage category, and they can create that class and decide benefits on that basis when they themselves have no interest in the actual institution of marriage as married?

Tim Cook

So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.

William Weld

I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well.

Samuel Rogers

Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay.

Whoopi Goldberg

If You don't like Gay Marriage, Don't Marry a Gay Person.

Whoopi Goldberg

Really, darling, it's a no-brainer. You know, I understand not everybody is for gay marriage. But if you're not for gay marriage, don't marry a gay person. That's what I say

Tori Amos

If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.