Gay Quote by Dustin Lance Black Download Open image “I think it's very important that, you know, gay actors get to play gay characters.” — Dustin Lance Black ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gay I think Important Play Think
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think, in general, straight actors should be able to play queer roles just as much as queer actors should be able to play… — Keiynan Lonsdale Copy Share Image
Most important, in portraying gay people... it's just like portraying anybody else. — Luke Macfarlane Copy Share Image
A lot of straight actors are actively searching for gay roles because it is something different to do. — Rupert Everett Copy Share Image
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. — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
If you play a gay role, it sticks more than it does if an actor were to play a murderer or a psychopath. — Harry Hamlin Copy Share Image
Personally, I wouldn't advise a gay leading man-type actor to come out. — Richard Chamberlain Copy Share Image
I think, almost, the film industry thinks that by making gay characters super masculine, it's an attempt at saying being gay is OK if… — Josie Totah Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, there weren't a lot of out gay actors playing gay roles. I didn't see myself represented truthfully in… — Tommy Dorfman Copy Share Image
I understand why the gay community wants to embrace actors who are out. People want to be represented. — Cheyenne Jackson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
That's what I learned most about directing on my own - you've got to build a family, a filmmaking family. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
I watched Sean Penn, you know, bring Harvey Milk to life. I was on the set every day. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
I love the true life stories and the biopics - people say I'm pigeonholed, but it's a fantastic kind of pigeonhole - but it's… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
Gay people are more powerful when they work with lesbians. We become more powerful when we're L, G, B and T. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
I get emotionally attached to someone if I talk to them on the street corner for five minutes. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
For Coca-Cola to take a pro-diversity, pro-equality stance creates a lot of goodwill in the LGBT community. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
In this miraculous, beautiful universe of ours, where it's an absolute miracle that our eyes and ears can witness it all, we somehow have… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
You can't keep treating people differently under the law because of their differences. That's not America. I dare say that's not even a good… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
There has been this resurgence in anti-LGBT language in the U.K. and the U.S., and the rest of the world. In the U.S. we've… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
Have I always agreed with my Southern, military, Mormon family? Absolutely not. Have we always figured out how to get along? Yes! At the… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
I think of the biopics I've written as exploring a more grown-up side of myself, through other characters' lives. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Milk' for me. I wrote it for the younger version of me that had no clue that there are people who'd ever… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way. — Manny Pacquiao Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
Each of us is precious to God because each of us has their name written on the palms of God's hands. And God says… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
I had to smile when stories emerged questioning whether I was gay. Obviously I knew I wasn't but people were curiously desperate to suggest… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Any home where there is love constitutes a family and all families should have the same legal rights, including the right to marry and… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
Since 'coming out,' I've marched in gay pride parades all around the world, I've filled my home full of rainbow tat and I've become… — Liz Carr Copy Share Image
I tend to get reactions just by being on screen, because I guess I'm physically queer-coded or something. Especially with 'Star Wars;' I get… — Katy O'Brian Copy Share Image
I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
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