George Colman Quotes

Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver'.

George Colman

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• Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • World
  • Man
  • Me

• On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • History
  • Star
  • Sports

• It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Life
  • Work
  • Road

• We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Heart
  • American
  • Mom

• Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Men
  • Gay
  • Looking

• I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Think
  • Community
  • Gay

• I have blood from Dutch and Norwegian.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • Blood
  • Dutch
  • Norwegian

• There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Life
  • Good
  • She

• I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Doubt

• If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Man
  • Design
  • Gay

• A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Music
  • Story

• Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Up
  • Gay
  • Explore

• You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Love
  • Man
  • Woman

• I came to N.Y.C. in 1988 and got very involved with Act Up. I also started making movies, including two very gay shorts, 'Vaudeville' and 'Lady.' It was the height of the AIDS epidemic, and New York City was both dying and very alive at the same time.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Up
  • Time
  • City

• I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Gay

• Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Kind
  • Gay
  • Economy

• The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Up
  • Language

• And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Gay
  • Looking
  • Street

• The number of people who said that it made a difference to them that I'm out is the reason that I'm out. There are people who devote their lives to taking away the rights of gays and lesbians, and I think that visibility is very important. I'm trying to encourage more people to come out, and show everyone who they are, because it's harder to take away the rights of a human being. And this is a miracle state, because we can get married. And I think that these people working to take away our rights are going to lose, because of this generation.

  

  Anthony Rapp
  • People
  • Important
  • Trying

• I know that people can live celibate lives. I did it myself for many years.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Live
  • Myself

• I hear always the sad voices of summer passing like red winged birds over the high grass

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • High
  • Red
  • Sad

• You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally.

  

  Dr. Dre
  • House
  • Alcohol

• In 'Alpha Protocol,' right from the outset, the parameters of the game explain to you that the mission needs to get done. How you approach that is your decision. The rewards and penalties for either path, those are going to balance out into different consequences.

  

  Chris Avellone
  • Different
  • Done
  • Game

• Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver'.

  

  George Colman
  • Gay