Actors Quote by Harry Hamlin

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

— Dustin Lance Black

A lot of straight actors are actively searching for gay roles because it is something different to do.

— Rupert Everett

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

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

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 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

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

People sometimes think I'm gay because I once played a gay in a movie. It's funny. Audiences don't think you're a murderer if you…

— Perry King

The taboo for straight actors playing gay is gone... My mother was squirming a bit in the theater because she comes from a different…

— Dean Cain

So often gay characters, particular those portrayed in an era where gayness was something of a taboo and a statement about 'who I am…

— Freddie Fox

I mean, I always knew that I was gay, yet this was a time when you were not encouraged to bring that out as…

— Amanda Bearse

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