Cate Blanchett Quotes

My son wasn't gay. No way.

Someone said to me a long time ago, 'You're a drag queen,' and at the time I was a little like... hello? But then I realized over the years that I actually am.

My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.

How can my son not be straight after all I've said and done for him?

I've had so many parents ask me, 'So when should you talk about what it means to be gay or LGBTQ with a child?' I don't think there's any age that's too young.

I was in the closet up until I moved to the U.S. But I was always one of those kids who couldn't really hide being gay. Some queer kids are just more straight-passing than others. I was not one of those kids.

Gay sisters don't think too bad of transvestites. Gay brothers do.

I identify as a gay man all the time, but I also like to identify as queer.

John Kerry didn't out me, nor did he offend or attack me by calling me a lesbian. I certainly couldn't be offended by the truth.

No one knew I was gay growing up but I was bullied. I was a cheerleader, fairly popular and considered straight.

You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.

I've just found out there are pages on the internet dedicated to whether I'm gay or not.

I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from... you heterosexuals.

I never thought to myself, I'm going to grow up and fall in love with a man or I'm going to fall in love with a woman because my mother is a lesbian.

Even in high school, I had friends that I didn't know were gay until years later. I'd find out on Facebook or something and be like, 'Oh, that explains some things,' or 'Wow, no wonder they were so cool.'

In the male homosexual community, we love to label and categorize and organize each other as if we are in a never-ending high school biology class.

It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing.

Lately, I've been a little sad that I'm not a gay man.

For many years I thought I was bisexual. And then I would ask myself, 'What is bisexual? Does that even exist?'

Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it, really.

Frankly, no one had ever asked me before. My sexuality is something I'm completely comfortable with and open about.

I don't know what would have been worse: If Mira had come home one day to say she was gay or an actress.

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.

Straight people say, 'You know you're just gay,' and gay people say, 'You know you're just gay.' There is such a thing as bisexual!