Jonathan Groff Quotes

I'm gay. Megan's my girlfriend... These aren't secrets to people who know me. I don't feel like I've not lived my life. I think people have this assumption that if you're not talking about it, you must be hiding it, like it's this secret. That was never the case for me.

I am gay. I've had two boyfriends most of my life.

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.

My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, and I just figured I'd deal with the other stuff later.

I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which can be uninclusive and disempowering.

I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.

In terms of my work, I've never been reticent in terms of defining my sexuality. I write about my life.

I came out to my parents when I was a junior in college. And it was pretty fine. They were more concerned with why I wasn't dating anyone. But now I'm 36, and I still don't date anyone.

I didn't want to wave the flag and be like, 'Look! I'm gay! Da da da.' I just wanted to say, 'This is my lifestyle.'

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

I'm gay.

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

In high school, I came out to my friends as queer. My entire world opened up; this was a monumental step toward unveiling my truest self. I had my first girlfriend when I was sixteen years old.

I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.

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

If you ask anyone who is gay, they know, there is no confusion.

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.

'If Our Love Is Wrong' is, quite simply, my coming out song, as I was trying to wrap my head around my sexuality and was starting to learn about songwriting, and that my honesty and my authenticity came from my personal experiences and writing about stuff that genuinely bugged me or upset me.

When I came out, I wondered whether I had a future not just professionally but romantically. Would I be able to find someone who loved me?

It was never like I had to go, 'I am gay.' Slowly, almost by osmosis, by the way I was behaving, it became obvious and accepted.

I knew I was as gay as a goose. Then I ended up in West Hollywood, where the queers hang from the trees. I was home. I had landed.

I'm not ashamed to be gay.

I knew I was gay since, like, fifth grade.

I came out to one or two people in high school and then it wasn't until I was a freshman in college that I was fully out of the closet. It was like the late '90s.

My coming out, like most people's, was and is a gradual process - for no matter how out one is, there are always situations when one's with people who don't know, and one has the choice or, sometimes, the necessity of coming out to them.