Justin Prentice Quotes

I had an amazing experience being on a hit show for Showtime, doing 'Queer as Folk', and impacting things socially, like helping change hearts and minds. It's such a big chapter of my life.

White people loved 'The Cosby Show,' especially liberal white people. They loved it because it was a great, funny, well - written, and beautifully performed television show.

YA does a fantastic job of being socially aware and, at the same time, entertaining.

One of my favorites is 'Parks and Recreation.' Great show; awesome writing; beautiful, diverse cast. They also have a very diverse writer's room, which I love.

I have never actually watched 'Glee.' I have heard it is just fantastic.

They might have a long way to go before truly accepting gay people into their lives, but they have accepted the show into their living rooms each and every week.

You don't think that mean people can be funny, and Jane Lynch is the epitome of that. If there could be, like, a gay version of 'Mean Girls,' I'd totally be in it.

We've never slammed people over the head or made 'The Flash' an after-school special. With us, it's always been presenting the world in which we live. The world in which we live, men and women work together; different races work together, and you have gay friends, and people have relationships. We just try to show that.

I love 'Glee.'

I've just always been a proponent of having a lot of diversity in the shows I've done. I just think that's the world we live in.

Whatever your gender, you can be a 'Star Wars' fan.

I'm so proud of 'Star Wars' as it is and the fact that it's making a concerted effort to be more inclusive and be more representative. Because it's 'Star Wars.' It's intergalactic. The more people who look like everyone, the better.

I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.

I can understand why guys wouldn't be into 'Glee.' You know, that's a pretty heavy musical show. That show does, like, six songs in an episode.

I think 'Girls' is pretty brilliant.

The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'

Gay rights is just one of the social issues I'm interested in. I think that people might be less tense about it if we would all accept the fact that not everyone is wired the same way.

I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

On 'The Simpsons,' I will say that we definitely like to comment on what's going on in the world, and we try to be funny. If we can figure out a way of being funny about it, then we've gone part of the way of accomplishing our task.

There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.

We need to be able to go to school and feel safe and accepted for who we are.

Films should be for everybody.

The true victory is the victory for democracy and pluralism.

Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode.

I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds of characters. It's really not all lesbians any more.