Acting Quote by Maria Bello

I've played a couple of gay characters onstage, and it's always been something I'm comfortable with. I grew up in a family and a…

— Seth Numrich

I put it forth as a challenge to the industry to continue thinking of actors, regardless of sexuality, with open eyes and open hearts…

— Dan Amboyer

People are kinda still a bit puritanical, perhaps. People don't expect a woman to feel so open, in a way, about her sexuality onscreen,…

— Maria Bello

As an actor it's your job to empathise with your character regardless of whether they have a different sexual orientation, spiritual beliefs, or anything.

— Darren Criss

I was never in the closet as an actor. It never occurred to me that my sexuality was something to be ashamed of.

— Joe Mantello

I love stories where sexuality is just part of the character, not the only thing about them.

— Megan Stalter

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

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

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

— Dustin Lance Black

“A pervasive misconception about sexual orientation doggedly clings to the conversation about being LGBT in our current culture: that one’s sexual orientation is defined…

— Aaron Hartzler

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