62 Quotes by Randy Harrison

I’ve done sexual stuff before – onstage, which is even more emotionally difficult. With a TV crew around, you are stopping and starting; it becomes really technical. It’s not erotic at all.

It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there’s a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.

Dad said that he was prouder of me than he’d ever been when I came out.

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.

I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do – monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.

I could definitely empathize with the character, with the feelings of helplessness – if only the desperation and the feeling of isolation.

I was always the shame of the family – the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.

It’s a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.

I can’t walk down the street with my head up. I’m not a hat wearer, but now I’m a hat wearer.