George Takei Quotes

I came out around 25 publicly.

I have never been outed by anyone but myself!

I watched pretty much every coming out video on YouTube that has ever been posted; I watched it in between 14 and a half and 15. Those coming out videos, and those people on YouTube, those brave, brave, brave people on YouTube, without them, I don't know where I'd be.

Nowadays, if somebody in America is feeling alone and wants to find a coming out story, they just search 'coming out,' and they'll find millions of first-person examples of people telling their story.

I never officially came out in any kind of really public way. I just always lived very simply and openly, but the press has never made a big fuss about me or said anything to me.

I'm gay. Megan's my girlfriend... These aren't secrets to people who know me. I don't feel like I've not lived my life. I think people have this assumption that if you're not talking about it, you must be hiding it, like it's this secret. That was never the case for me.

When Ellen came out on national television, it was the first time I'd ever seen an LGBT woman represented in such a prominent way.

I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come out of a closet. I never felt like I was in a closet. I never did. I always felt comfortable with who I am and the decisions I made.

I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.

Anyone in public life who comes out, comes out primarily for themselves, and their life is immediately improved. That's what happened to me.

I'm not even sure I want to use the term 'coming out.'

I didn't want that 15 minutes of fame moment like, 'Oh, she said she was gay.'

If I was gay, why would I hide it?

After coming out as gay, I soon felt a lot more comfortable in my life, moment to moment.

I kind of live my life as an example, and I just never felt like I had to be on the cover of a magazine announcing that I was gay; it's just who I am. I just live my life, and I never really thought about it.

Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.

My coming out was just so boring.

Any therapist will tell you that when you're ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren't ready.

I realize it's a cliche, almost, that coming out of the closet is a very healthy and empowering thing to do, but for me, it really has been a truly wonderful thing.

Now the fact that people are saying, 'Oh my God, he's finally come out' - I was never in.

Being from New York, if you're gay, you're gay. I think it's important that if you are gay, you not be afraid to say who you are.

I really didn't talk about my sexuality until I wrote my autobiography.

I am comfortable being gay. Most of my adult life, it's never been a secret. I knew I was gay when I was in high school. I am just fortunate I have lived in two of the most gay-friendly places in the world: New York and London.

I didn't have a coming out moment.

Coming out, for me, was slightly painful. It was a relief, but it was also painful.