Assumption Quote by Carol Anshaw

Now, it's weird not to have gay characters on a show.

— Megan Mullally

I think it's very important that, you know, gay actors get to play gay characters.

— Dustin Lance Black

I feel like, for so many years in the industry, LGBT-identifying actors were told to play small or water themselves down or 'butch it…

— Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

For a long time we have just seen caricatures of gay characters. I honestly would not have done such roles unless I was sure…

— Arjun Mathur

It's weird because I see black gay characters on television all the time, but do I relate to them? Not always, because they're set…

— Lena Waithe

Cinema is actually very backward. When we see gay characters or people of color, they're always there for that reason. I'm personally kind of…

— Justin Lin

I'm interested in gay characters - not trying to sensationalize gay characters, just [representing] who are in my personal life. I'm interested in exploring…

— Jamie Babbit

I kind of cheer the presence of any gay characters at all - I think the more we can saturate television with any gay…

— Jesse Tyler Ferguson

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 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

I don't think there is a guy that played more gay characters than I have done in my life.

— Antonio Banderas

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

— Eric McCormack