Jeff Garcia Quotes

If I talk to a girl, it's assumed that I'm having a scene with her. If I don't, then it's assumed that I'm gay.

I'm very often referred to as 'Sir' in elevators and such. I think it has to do with being this tall and not wearing much lipstick. I think people just can't imagine I'd be a woman if I look like this.

I grew up around gay people my entire life, basically, that’s possibly why I’m quite camp, and some people think I’m gay when I meet them, which I think is awesome. It’s always good to keep them guessing.

It's the idea that when you say 'actress', people think of an airy, floaty, no-brain person, which of course you can't be if you are an actor. It is an unfortunate word, which is why, for a time, I hung on to 'actor', because it just seemed more workmanlike, you know, like you say 'woman doctor' not 'doctoress'.

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

If people think I am gay, yeah, hey that doesn't bother me. Not at all. What would people think? To me I am such a heterosexual guy. It doesn't even, I don't even think about it.

If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.

A lot of people call me gay because they don't see me with anyone.

We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.

It's very hard for a woman in comedy. It's hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians.

I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.

Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

People's sexuality is often defined by who we're partnered with at any given moment, which can be a frustrating limitation for me. I've had countless tiny 'coming out' moments in my life, often simply to explain to someone else that they have misjudged my sexuality based on who they saw me dating.

It can be frustrating when you're put in a category with others. Women do get lumped together in this reductive grouping, and you think, 'Gosh, that rarely happens with the boys.' I'm sure people don't say to Eddie Redmayne, 'How do you feel about Andrew Garfield?'

I'm not gay - everybody thinks I am - but I dig 'The L Word.'

A lot of people thought I was gay.

When a woman is anything but pleasant, she is labeled as whiny, hysterical, etc.

Obviously, there's so many different types of gay people, but some people don't know that. Some people think we all look and act a certain type of way.

Being bisexual doesn't mean I'm suddenly willy-nilly running around.

Just by existing as men, we are automatically guilty of everything in some people's minds. And, on top of that, we've created a situation in the media where men are only allowed to talk about politics and sport.

You can so easily be dismissed as a thug or hysterical if you're a woman if you don't keep your rage in check.

I got a lot of crap for being named SZA but not being affiliated with Wu-Tang, and being a girl.

I used to look at gay men and think, 'I'm not like that, I don't want to be like that, that's not me.'

Dad somewhat enjoyed being called gay. He said it made women want to prove the assertion wrong.