Jane Lynch Quotes

There was a period where I was like, 'I'm gonna have to be in the closet if I want to be successful.' But then I sort of made the decision right when I graduated college that that wasn't going to be my route. Even if it took longer to get work, I at least was gonna be true to myself.

When I was with Ellen, I was telling people, If you come out, it's gonna be better for you. But I honestly don't know that.

When I was 16, I knew I was gay. I loved a lot. But I lived as a straight guy, because there are people in my town who don't understand my story. I never told. I never wanted to show what was inside my heart.

I was pursuing my acting career, but I was silent on the LGBT issue, the issue that was closest to me. I knew if I came out then, I'd have had to change careers.

What love life? I'm not gay, but I might as well be.

At some point, I came out to a lot of friends and some family, but then I went back in the closet when I started working as an actor in America.

As a closeted gay man, Jim McGreevey lived a life of presentation, a gay man portraying a straight man.

I was so terrified for so long about what people think about my sexuality, and I didn't wanna find myself in a position where I was losing my fans and couldn't do my job.

I remember when I told my mom that I wanted to come out, and my mom was a little hesitant. She was saying, 'Are you sure? Do you think that might affect your scores?' or, 'Is it something that you think that you need to do?' And I told her, 'I don't care. It's important to me.'

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.

When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.

You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.

When you're a young kid and you're gay, you're out there on your own. And you're trying to figure this thing out. And your parents typically aren't gay.

My depression at the end of Wham! was because I was beginning to realise I was gay, not bi.

My mom doesn't get the whole gay thing, but she loves me.

Part of the reason why I've never said that I was gay until now was because I didn't want that adjective assigned to my name for all of eternity. You know, gay Rosie O'Donnell.

I'm a lesbian. Yup. Hundred percent. Hundred percent. I remember being in college, and I had fallen in love with this woman, and I remember sitting in my dorm room saying out loud to myself, like, 'You have enough problems. You are not gonna let this happen.'

As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.

I don't want to be the stupid blond. I want to be an actor.

Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.

Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.

I'm not even sure I want to use the term 'coming out.'

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.

I was raised thinking I'd burn in hell for being gay, but I didn't have a choice. It's just who I am.

When I realised that I had feelings for men as well as women, at first I was worried and frightened, and there was a certain amount of 'Who am I? Am I a criminal?' and so on. It took me a long time to come to terms with myself. Those were painful years - painful then and painful to look back on.