Sexuality in Media Quotes

The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.

Sex is a must topic. Even every Bollywood movies has such highlighted content.

As soon as a person takes a part as a homosexual, the press says, "What do your wife and children think of this?" And the actor never says, "Well, last week I was a murderer, and the week before that I was a child molester, and the week before that I was a lunatic. But now I'm a homosexual."

Whenever you have a character in which one of his defining qualities is his sexuality, it's always challenging, because you don't want to bring in someone who's going to play that in a phony way.

Sometimes I watch the broad comedies coming out of Hollywood and I think, 'You know, sex is a big part of people's lives, but is that really the only thing men are ever concerned about?' People are more complicated than they appear in film or television.

I really think that sex always looks kind of funny in a movie.

After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.

If I did the structure and had this thing about a straight character, I would never have a sex scene to prove that he's heterosexual. If I have a gay character in a movie, I need to have a sex scene in it - just to prove that he's gay?

I feel sex is a common topic everyone see in content of any television shows be it a fiction or live comedy or a chat show.

Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.