Sue Perkins Quotes

In terms of sexual orientation I don't really feel I've changed. I don't feel there was a hidden part of my sexuality that I wasn't aware of. I'd been with men all my life, and I'd never fallen in love with a woman. But when I did, it didn't seem so strange.

Sometimes people think I'm gay. A lot of people have asked me if I'm gay. I answer, 'Look, not to my knowledge. But I'm still young, it could be that in the future, I'll find out that I'm gay.'

As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.

I'm open-minded. I don't consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I've had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.

I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.

I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.

I've been thinking a lot about my relationship to my own queerness, and I think the word pansexual speaks to me more than bi does.

Some people have their sexuality really at the forefront of who they are, and I applaud those people.

I never went through a gender identity problem, but I did with my sexuality.

In the 1970s, I identified as a lesbian and wrote about it. In 1991, I met the love of my life, married him.

A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can't read sexuality off of gender.

I'm not a lesbian. I just think that all humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes.

I'm, like, a person who likes love. And I can find love in any type of person. I've dated girls, and I've liked girls. But they're usually straight girls, so it never works out. I mean, I'm not that gay, so I don't have the energy to convince someone else to be gay, you know?

The way I approach the character isn't about being gay or straight. It's just about who you love. Gender has very little to do with it.

My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me.

If there ever has been any confusion about my sexuality, then you are someone that doesn't even know me!

I don't encourage people to choose any sort of sexuality.

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

Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?

I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.

I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love.

And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves.

I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.

I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It stopped me being a 'mummy's boy.'

I think one's sexuality can be the center of life, and coming out and discovering your sexuality is something that really can define your existence.