#closet

I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#chamberlain #closet #fear #found #gay

It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change! ↗

— Thom Gunn

#by the time #certain #change #closet #department

I don't have any skeletons in my closet. ↗

— Joe Williams

#closet #i #skeletons

I think - I think you have a conscience growing up in a loving family with a nurturing community. And I think what happens is, and that's part of the problem of being in the closet which is a very sick place. I mean it's self loathing. It's self denial. And you keep that separate. ↗

— James McGreevey

#closet #community #conscience #denial #family

But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion. ↗

— James McGreevey

#being #best #closet #election #first

When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event. ↗

— Nicole Richie

#asking #before #closet #design #dinner

We had a one bedroom, one bathroom, one closet apartment with four girls. ↗

— Connie Sellecca

#bathroom #bedroom #closet #four #had

For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself. ↗

— James McGreevey

#closet #constituency #god #honest #living

Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another. ↗

— Antony Sher

#another #being #closet #comfortable #everything

The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them. ↗