Carol Anshaw Quotes

What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.

I don't believe I've ever met a homosexual.

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

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.

I grew up singing and dancing, so people have been calling me gay since fifth grade. I've heard everything you could possibly hear about it. But I do love gay people, so I'm not going to act like I was insulted or angry about it.

I actually feel sorry for people who have a lot of illusions in their head about what gay is. I mean, I know some gay people who are really wonderful people.

There's nothing wrong with being gay. I have plenty of friends who are going to hell.

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 never said I don't like gay people.

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

I have hardly any friends who aren't gay.

For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free.

Growing up in the Bible Belt of Texas, I thought for sure there was no way - if I'm 100 percent true to myself and come out as a gay, African-American person in 2015 - that people are going to be able to accept that and understand it.

I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.

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

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.

God did not create gays and lesbians so He could have something to hate!

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.

My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.

I don't think any gay dude is gangsta, period.

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.

I've had so many interviews where the last question is, Are you gay? I had to find very creative ways to say that I was gay, but that I wasn't going to talk about it.

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.