Character Quote by Antonio Banderas

People balk at the fact that I've played loads of gay characters. Maybe I have, but you know what? It doesn't matter.

— Freddie Fox

As an actor, it was important to me to play gay characters because, growing up, it was something I never really saw done on…

— Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays.

— Eric McCormack

I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played a gay character, and that would fascinate me…

— Eddie Marsan

Without a conscious effort, all of my plays have all featured gay characters. I'm proud of that.

— Stephen Karam

Once you're sort of pigeonholed into something, it's quite difficult to get out of it. I have no aversion to playing a gay character…

— Sarah Shahi

I think it shouldn't matter at all what character people play, but of course there is a narrative that's very clear, that openly gay…

— Jonathan Bailey

The playing ground is so uneven, and there have been so many straight characters for such a long time, and so many gay actors…

— Stephanie Beatriz

I've played gay, and I've played straight... I'm proud to be a gay man myself, and I'm thrilled to get the opportunity to play…

— Michael Arden

I knew that I wanted to primarily play queer characters.

— Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

I dont want to just play gay characters, ... I think it would get boring to play the same thing again and again and again.

— Rupert Everett

Honestly, I think some of my family members of a certain generation were more skittish about me playing a gay character on Six Feet…

— Michael C. Hall