Jennifer Beals Quotes

The only thing I have going on at a personal level is just the way I knew I was gay and I knew what that meant inside me, but the gender aspect of who I am came later.

I wasn't dating anyone. I was hyper-focused on acting. So I didn't bring a guy to the prom. I was the lone gay person as far as I knew.

When I was 12 or 13 I already knew that I was gay. And then my interests were not conventional. So I was very different, in every sense of the word. And in an all-boys school, that's tough.

I didn't know what gay was. There was no such thing when I was growing up. I knew I had crushes on boys, but I didn't think there was anything wrong with that until I started to hear about it from the other kids in school.

I think I was probably looking for gay role models when I was younger, before I even knew or thought I was gay. I didn't really make the connection that they were gay, but I felt drawn to them because they were going against the grain, and I knew there was something that they had that everybody else didn't have. It was an edge.

I was homophobic because I obviously didn't know that I was gay.

I was a gay kid who didn't know I was a gay kid, which was really challenging because you think there is something wrong with you until you understand what it is.

It was shortly before my 18th birthday when I came out and admitted that I was gay.

When I was 13, my mum knew that I was gay, and she just always knew.

I knew from a young age that I was attracted to guys. I didn't know if it was a phase... I didn't want to say, 'Hey, I might be gay. I might be bi.' I just didn't know... I wanted to find who I was and make sure I knew what was comfortable. So I didn't tell anyone growing up.

My father is gay.

I think the gay community is made up of so many little different things, different parts, different people... I think that can be quite hard for people. You think you've found your tribe, but actually, that isn't your tribe, and then you have to keep searching for what kind of makes sense.

First and foremost, I'm an athlete. And I'm an Olympian. I'm not a gay Olympian. I'm just an Olympian that's also gay. I don't mind reading that - like, 'gay Olympian Adam Rippon.' It's fine. I hope that, in a way, it makes it easier for other young kids who are gay. If they go to the Olympics, they can just be called Olympians.

When I was signed, at the age of 23...the fact that I presented myself as an out gay man was very, very unusual.

When people have asked me in the past if I'm gay, I've said "I'm not gay, but I'm festive."

I am not in the closet. I am not coming out of the closet. I am not gay.

You can't just go gay, its not like buying a ladder.

One of the definitive works on gay life. Through this collective testimony we may come to understand what it is to be 'the other'; in short, the other part of ourselves.

I'm not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off the homophobes.

I think my friend Jeff is gay. I don't know - I'm so bad with names.

The hardest part about rollerblading is telling your parents you're gay.

I think very few people are gay. I'm a two-percenter myself.

I knew right away that Rock Hudson was gay when he did not fall in love with me

I knew that I was gay in every bone of my body. So I did the only thing I could do. I started the movement.

I knew I was gay when I was around 13. There wasn't the internet, there weren't support groups, AIDS was everywhere. I mean, it was really dark.