Sue Perkins famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I think the fact that I am gay is about the 47th most interesting thing about me.
-- Sue Perkins

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I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.
Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.
I never had a low self-esteem that would make me gay. At one point, though, the reverse happened. Being homosexual led me to have a loss of self-esteem when I first became aware of society's attitudes about homosexuality.
I don't think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I'm gay.
I think the least stereotypical gay character on television is probably Matt LeBlanc on 'Episodes.' He just plays it so straight-faced. They never talk about the fact that he's such a huge gay person.
I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.
That's an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone... forever?

Sue Perkins famous quotes

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