Famke Janssen Quotes

Every child is different. Every child responds in a different way.

We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

I'm the only gay person my parents know.

I don't believe that homosexuals really want to marry, most of them. They're all different, and some have different views.

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.

There are a lot of myths about gay people.

I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.

Growing up in Fife, you were aware that there were these creatures called lesbians, but it was in the realms of complete freakishness. And I didn't feel like a freak.

Homosexuality in hip-hop is an extension of homosexuality in the black community. The black community is very, very conservative when it comes to homosexuality, and I don't mean conservative in the good way, like we're saving money. I mean very intolerant.

Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems.

Some people have a desire to be with the same sex. But that's them.

I don’t believe that opposite sex and same sex marriages are the same, but I do believe, with growing numbers of Americans, that the time for denigrating or stigmatizing same sex relationships are over.

I've seen anti-Semitism essentially disappear in my adult life as a social and economic factor. There may be some nuts out there, but generally things are fine. I think the same thing will happen with gayness. We'll get to a point soon enough where it's not even an issue anymore. But progress can be slow

I was always controversial, being gay, so nothing was more controversial than that.

All bodies can't be same, my body will react differently tours.

I had to try to understand how much of a taboo it was. My mum worked in ballet and theatre when she was younger, and I had been brought up around lots of gay people, so I had never had any issue and couldn't imagine how hard it was to be out.

Any gay man in America redeals a deck at some point.

For me, as a kid, I always felt like being gay was something that was going make people turn on me.

If you make something interesting, inevitably not everybody is going to like it.

Everyone's condition is different, and the way that each person lives his or her life is different.

Benedict XVI kept saying that homosexuals are deviant. They're not deviant. They're deviant only if you say that anyone who is different from me is abnormal.

You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different.

Everybody's born to be different, that's the one thing that makes us the same.