Portia de Rossi Quotes

There are a lot of coming out videos of people who are gay or lesbian, and they're so confident. But it made me cry because I'm not that. I don't know who I am 100 percent.

Being gay, you're kind of forced to ask, I suppose, very existential questions from a very, very early age. Your identity becomes so important to you because you're trying to understand it, and, I think, from the age of, like, 9, you're being forced to ask questions... that other kids maybe don't have to ask.

Realizing I was gay was a long sort of waking up.

What's it like to figure out you're gay and then begin the process of coming out? Well, for most of my life, I felt doomed. I could imagine no path that would allow me to realize my authentic self. I felt the need to lie, even to myself, insisting: I am straight.

I really didn't talk about my sexuality until I wrote my autobiography.

During my sophomore year at American University, I was elected president of the student body. At the same time, I was struggling with my identity and whether or not to come out as transgender.

I do wish, when I was younger, that I knew that I was gay. It would have made things a lot clearer for me. Really. Looking back on it, it was so obvious, but it never really dawned on me. Socially, I felt like I didn't know how to be and who to be. If I had known back then, it would have given me more self-confidence.

Some people have their sexuality really at the forefront of who they are, and I applaud those people.

Coming out as a gay man, it was very much about finding my own identity and dealing with labeling.

I've wondered what my sexuality might be, but I've never wondered whether it was acceptable or not. Anyway, who really cares whether I'm gay or straight?

I've been uncomfortable dealing with my identity since I was 16 years old.

The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.

It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.

I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.

I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' And I have to say, it was the single biggest step I took toward emotional well-being, to stop feeling like I had to hide who I am.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

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

Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life.

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

In the early '90s, I wrote a play called 'Word of Mouth' in which I played a number of different characters. One was a thirteen-year-old boy who, through a series of diary entries, realizes that he's gay.

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.

I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.

Coming out was painful, but life got so much better for me.