James Adomian Quotes

You can't just look at someone and guess their sexuality. There's no point in assuming that every gay man has just one personality type.

I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.

A lot of straight people think I'm nuts.

When your doctor and neighbours and child's schoolteachers know you are gay, there is no closet for you to hide in.

Sedaris, in his essay in the It Gets Better book, writes that when he was growing up nobody called him gay because you might as well have called him a warlock. Nobody knew what gay was.

I think it's always good for gay people to come out, but it's also understandable why people might choose not to do so.

People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.

I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.

I didn't want that 15 minutes of fame moment like, 'Oh, she said she was gay.'

I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.

I don't believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it's really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.

I wouldn't want to lose out on my macho action movie just because I told people I was queer.

When I was a kid, and I was odd, the default assumption was that I was odd, not that I was gay. Now when a kid is odd in a Greensburg, gay or straight, the default assumption is gay.

When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to be a clone. Now this was in the late '70s.

I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

Now the fact that people are saying, 'Oh my God, he's finally come out' - I was never in.

We've all been watching stories about heterosexuals forever... As a gay kid, you are always having to translate. You are always having to pretend like you are one of the other characters. You're not seeing your life accurately reflected.

I can spot a homosexual at forty paces.

A lot of people thought I was gay.

I leave it very open because, at the end of the day, it's one of those things where I shouldn't have to reinforce and state, 'No, I'm a heterosexual' - because that's all nonsense.

Obviously, there's so many different types of gay people, but some people don't know that. Some people think we all look and act a certain type of way.

My straight friends accept I'm gay but they forget that some people don't. Even now, if I go into a party, people don't usually assume I'm gay, so you have to keep coming out. And if you say you've got a film with a gay subject matter, you can sometimes see people's eyes going, 'Oh! OK!'

Outside of the gay world, I don't know how many people know me.

Gay people in general, I think, like telling secrets because we have to hide a huge secret for the first half of our lives. Why would we want to keep any more?