Roseanne Barr Quotes

People have always said, are you gay? I've had a lot of that. But it's just not in me. I really like women a lot; I'm repulsed by men sexually.

We learn our sexual preferences and orientations.

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

I never said I was gay, because I don't think anyone is.

I'm not gay.

I guess if I had to classify myself, I'd say I'm straight.

I'm far from being a homosexual.

I didn't know if I was heterosexual or homosexual.

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

The question people ask me all the time is, 'How was it playing a gay character? How was it pretending to love a man?' And I don't mean to be abrasive, but that's just the stupidest question in the world to me. To assume there is a difference is ignorance. You're born a certain way. I was born loving women. I could have been born loving men.

Just like food, you could think peanut butter is your favorite food for 5,000 years and then be like, 'I actually like burgers better', you know? I was just trying to say that kids and people in general don't have to label themselves and say, 'I'm straight' or 'I'm gay' or 'I'm whatever.'

Sexuality shouldn't define you. It should be part of who you are.

Oh, you mean I'm a homosexual! Of course I am, and heterosexual too, but what's that got to do with my headache?

Maybe our gender is one thing and our sexuality is another. And that's a cool thing I think.

Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life.

There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.

I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female.

People who were close to me - family and friends - they knew about my sexuality.

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.

Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.

I am not gay.

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

I'm just going to say I'm not gay. I really, really like women. That's all I can really say about that.

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

I am many things, but one of the things I am is a lesbian.