Perez Hilton Quotes

For some reason, I was deeply ashamed of the theater early on. I think it had to do with this growing sense I was gay, although I couldn't have put a word to it back then.

I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until I began doing theater.

Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver'.

If I remember back to when I wasn't open about my sexuality, I spent a great deal of time worried about it.

I used to hate myself for being gay. I couldn't come to terms with it.

Being gay facilitated my capacity for shame. As a child, I carried around this thing that gradually became this big dark secret. When I came out in a newspaper interview at 30 I was expecting the reaction the following day to be like the climax of 'Dead Poets Society,' but actually no one really cared.

You take away the handicap of obesity, and this person becomes someone else. Take a jolly fat man for instance. You talk to him, and his heart is breaking. He wants to be thin.

Some people would like me to be round again.

I'm a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really.

I've always been known as the fat kid from Stand By Me.

I couldn't work my way into being a good-looking guy.

I graduated from high school in '62 and I didn't know any people who were gay. I'm sure there were people, but I didn't know any. For years and years, I guess, I was very uptight about being a gay actor. I thought it would make me less hirable.

I knew I was different when I was about six years of age but I just knew that I wasn't like everybody else. I mean I wasn't like the other kids. I didn't know what that was. But I guess it was when I was in seventh or eighth grade, I'm like, 'Hey, something's wrong here.'

In the past, it weighed on me because nobody in my family is gay. I had no role models so I had to find my own way.

I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that's where my heart was.

Maybe something is wrong with me, but I just think I'm normal. I'm not super-skinny but I'm not super-fat. But I don't really care about what other people say.

I think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel.

I have had a love-hate relationship with my body.

I am camp. Lots of gay men can't cope with their campness. They are in denial about it.

I know growing up as a young gay person how much you hate yourself, how much you already think you're different.

I was a closet straight. I think I wanted to be gay because I thought it was arty and interesting. And also, I was phenomenally shy with girls.

The truth is, I probably would be dead if I had become a star, because at that point I was so closeted and so afraid of people of finding out I was gay. There was no telling what would have happened.

You know, after all these years, it's just like we are who we are and it's a struggle for me and sometimes I'm heavier and sometimes I'm thinner.

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.

I think honestly, some people who think they're gay, they're confused.