Bette Davis Quotes

Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.

Bette Davis

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• I have many, many gay friends.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Friends
  • Gay
  • Many

• Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

  

  Edmund White
  • Political
  • Community
  • Body

• I never said I don't like gay people.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • People
  • Gay
  • Said

• 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

• 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

• 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

• If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real estate values go 'boom!'

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Real
  • Gay
  • Golf

• In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Man
  • Attention

• You would think there were 'Straights Only' water fountains the way Democrats carry on so (as if any gay man would drink nonbottled water)

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Water
  • Gay

• Gays have got to be pro-life. As soon as they find the gay gene, guess who the liberal yuppies are going to start aborting.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Life
  • Gay

• As a gay man in Hollywood, I certainly understand what it means to be in it but not of it, to be marginalized at times and kept out of certain clubs.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Gay

• I've actually performed at Gay Pride in Atlanta three times in my career. I've always had a large gay following, particularly in the lesbian community. I am grateful for that. To me, it means my music transcends categories. It also means that I'm a cute girl singing a rock song in an alto voice!

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Music
  • Career
  • Song

• I was inadvertently raised in the 'gay community.' I had straight parents, but I spent massive amounts of time at a very early age with gay, theater-hopeful thirty-somethings.

  

  Darren Criss
  • Time
  • Age
  • Parents

• I don't know if I would have the same take on world matters and social issues if I were not gay.

  

  Don Lemon
  • World
  • Gay

• We're no longer saying that people who are pro traditional marriage are bigots, and we're also not saying that people who are, like me, a Republican that is for gay marriage, is less of a Republican.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• Rather than ignore those who choose to publish their opinions without actually talking to me, I am happy to dispel any rumors or misconceptions and am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest and feel most fortunate to be working with wonderful people in the business I love.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• One of the greatest compliments you can ever get is when you make fun of a certain sect of people and they are laughing the hardest. When we did 'Men on Film' on 'In Living Color,' gay men wrote in how much they loved it.

  

  Marlon Wayans
  • People
  • Men
  • Fun

• Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody.

  

  Billie Jean King
  • People
  • May
  • Gay

• At one campus where I was lecturing, I asked a friend, 'How many of my colleagues know I'm gay?' He answered, 'All of them.' I wasn't surprised. But, just the same, it was kind of spooky, because not one of them had ever given me the faintest sign that he or she knew. If I had spoken about it myself, most of them would have felt it was in bad taste.

  

  Christopher Isherwood
  • She
  • Bad
  • Friend

• A friend of mine told me, you know your obsession with girls who talk like sexy babies? You have to put that into your script.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Friend
  • Sexy

• However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Liberty
  • Minorities
  • Insignificant

• I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Love
  • Father
  • Girl

• Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Gay
  • Liberation