Andrew Rannells Quotes

When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.

I watched pretty much every coming out video on YouTube that has ever been posted; I watched it in between 14 and a half and 15. Those coming out videos, and those people on YouTube, those brave, brave, brave people on YouTube, without them, I don't know where I'd be.

Being from New York, if you're gay, you're gay. I think it's important that if you are gay, you not be afraid to say who you are.

If I was gay, why would I hide it?

Who cares who comes out of the closet or not, so long as you're happy?

Everybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London, I never tried to hide.

I learned that coming out was crucial to self-esteem.

Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.

Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.

I was surprised how supportive my family and friends were in my coming out, and it gave and still gives me hope.

I remember being so nervous to tell my little sister. I was like, 'I have something to tell you... I'm gay.' And she was like, 'Cool, do you have a boyfriend?' And I was like, 'Yeah,' and she was like, 'When do I get to meet him?' I was, like, 'Really? It's that simple?' So it went really well.

I've never hidden my sexuality from anyone - my whole life, in fact - and I've been waiting for someone to ask about it in an interview, 'cause it's not something you just blurt out.

The curious thing is that I embraced homosexuality with as much joy and delight as I've embraced everything else in my life.

I want to continue to use my platform to tell my story to let young people that are struggling with their sexuality or identity know they are not alone, and it will get better.

It's great to be out and proud.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.

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.

I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.

I don't particularly like going on about being gay or making a big thing about it, but I think it's a bit of a pain to be secretive about it.

I don't feel closeted.

If my kid came to me and said 'I'm gay,' I'd say, 'Son, I love you.'

I came out to myself when I was about 15 or 16, and to my parents when I was 18. When you come out to your parents, that's when it's properly official.

I had a hell of a time convincing people I was gay - which was so annoying!

I've been openly gay since I can remember.