Sandra Bernhard Quotes

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.

I guess there have been a few questions about my sexuality, and I'd like to quiet any unnecessary rumors that may be out there. While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that I'm gay isn't the most interesting part of me.

Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed. But if there is someone who is convinced that Jack Nicholson and I are lovers, may they continue to do so. I find it amusing.

I'm certainly not going to tell other people what they should do with their own personal lives. I think it's certainly easier for a director to be out. The public is not going to see a movie because the director is gay or straight. It's maybe a little harder for an actor or actress because of, you know, the love roles and stuff. But gay people have been impersonating heteros in the movies for years. So, hopefully, that is becoming less of an issue. I think it would have been really great if a gay person had played a gay person. That's brave!

I don't think you choose whether or not you're gay.

I've just found out there are pages on the internet dedicated to whether I'm gay or not.

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

I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.

I've never denied my sexual orientation. I just don't make a point of it. It isn't what I do. Clearly, I'm known for the work I've done on trade and Social Security.

My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.

A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.

My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it, really.

I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.

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

If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

I try to treat my orientation the same way I would if I was straight, which is to talk about it when it's relevant.

I am not gay in real life.

You're nobody unless you have a gay rumor about you. I've been hit on by women from time to time, and it might simplify my life if I were gay, but no.

I was never hiding from being gay; I just never talked about it.

Maybe I've limited my opportunities by being so open about my sexuality, but my thinking is that, if I come out of the gates this way, then it's not really going to be a big deal in a couple of years.

No one's ever really cared about me being bisexual, and I only came out because I had always been out; it's just the general public didn't know. I'm quite fearless. I'm like, 'Let's just go out there and do this and see what happens.'

I am a gay man. It's not a secret, but not something that everyone would necessarily know.

It is cool to be gay, but I am not.

My wife Jane left me for another man. Then I fell in love with a bloke. I have been gay ever since.

Someone coming out as gay shouldn't be newsworthy; it shouldn't be warranting a magazine cover or anything like that, which I had as my story for coming out.