Evan Rachel Wood Quotes

It doesn't annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter. It's a subtle distinction, but that's how I view it.

I hired a publicist once I got cast in 'Passing Strange,' and one of the first conversations we had was about how I wanted to handle talking about my sexuality. I said, 'It's never been an issue for me. I want to talk about my work, but if something about myself relates to my work, of course I'll talk about it.'

I've never denied my sexual orientation. I just don't make a point of it. It isn't what I do. Clearly, I'm known for the work I've done on trade and Social Security.

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.

When we first came out with our music, the gay question was always there and it was super important for everyone. But for me it was amusing.

I'm a New York person. I've never gone out of the way to speak to the press to change my persona - I probably should have. It's too late now. But when I first started I was like, "I'm gonna stay this way. I'm gonna be this way," and I continued to. I probably should have sugarcoated it like, "This is not really the way I am - I'm an actor."

I think it's basically the same game, although with a public figure like [Donald] Trump I think you are bound to consider the public persona rather than the private one. At least that was the case with that piece of writing.

I think people somehow get a skewed view of Tom Brady. That he's just a clean-cut guy that does everything right and never says a bad word to anyone. We know him to be otherwise.

She's not a saint, and she's not what you think She's an actress, whoa She's better known for the things that she does on the mattress

What I'm saying is that, unlike a lot of portrayals of me, I'm not hiding behind the sunglasses. I'm out there working. I'm not trying to sell anybody anything, but I do realize we're entertainers.

People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me.

Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in the public astigmatism, anything you do seems like you did it so somebody would see you do it, like showing up at the right parties.

My face is my career.

I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.

I don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.

My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am.

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.

If you're in public life, a certain percentage of what you do must be done on television.

I wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to know her that way, too.

I never mentioned my sexuality to Warner Bros. at all, and they never mentioned it to me, thank God.

I don't feel like I'm writing music for gay people. I'm a gay man who is writing music about one tiny little experience of what it's like to be a human on this planet.

My surname is on my back, so I don't see it when I play - that is for the fans only.

It's really great to see the queer landscape really change to include everybody and make the rest of the world understand that we're not just one or two things. There's so much about the queer community that needs to be represented.

It was always my ambition to be on the cover of a free gay magazine.