American Quotes

As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.

There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.

There are some people that the press like to pick on and not just the gay press, but the press in general. And some people, the press just doesn't care about at all.

People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me.

People have to do things in their own time, and that's what I did.

People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.

Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.

I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date.

I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.

I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other.

I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.

I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown.

All I can do is try to create the best show possible, and I feel we've truly done that.

Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.

Well, I think every now and again, some people deserve to get their butts chewed. Every now and again some people deserve a pat on the back. What I try and do is compliment folk who deserve a compliment, and chew folks out who deserve to be chewed out.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

Well, I - all cases to me have interest. Every case is important to somebody, the people litigating that case. But the most difficult case for me is the case where one person says a, the other person says b, and you just don't know for certain who is not telling you the truth.

We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender.

The color of somebody's skin or the way he wears his hair or clothes has nothing to do with anything.

I think, unfortunately, some people are just bad, they're just born bad, and I don't know why.

I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone.

I think most folks are good folks.

I have great faith in the jury system.

Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.

But I do believe this - I believe that fundamentally, society is headed in the right direction or wants to head in the right direction, and I think judges have an obligation to try to help it head there.

And some people, you've got to lock up. If you don't, they're going to hurt you.