Quotes About Closeted

#1. I can imagine that if you're a kid growing up somewhere, where you might be gay or you think you're gay, but you don't know who else would be ... you become very closeted.

Rib Hillis

#2. When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.

Dan Savage

#3. Do most gay women love each other?" Doc asked.
"A lot of them love closeted movie stars.

Sarah Schulman

#4. It is not proper, you being closeted up here with him
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"Delphinia, don't be absurd. I am so firmly on the shelf that the maids are tempted to dust me.

Meredith Duran

#5. I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.

Barney Frank

#6. I wanted to tell a dream-come-true story about going from a closeted gay kid who loved pop culture to an out adult man making pop culture. I went from being told when I was 21 that I should never go on TV because of my crossed eyes to winding up being a 'Housewives' whisperer and talk-show host.

Andy Cohen

#7. When I was 14, I felt very rundown; I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that.

Gus Van Sant

#8. Do you want to know what one definition of bizarre might be? Driving to your closeted boyfriend's pretend-girlfriend's house to watch them prepare for a faux date.

Sean Kennedy

#9. There was a time in the '90s where, as an African-American man, you had to be a misogynistic R&B star or a rapper, and I didn't fit into either one of those. I was advised by my label to remain closeted at that time.

Billy Porter

#10. My friends, if we are going to do a great work for God, we must spend much time in prayer; we have got to be closeted with God.

Dwight L. Moody

#11. I'm a huge karaoke fan. Oh my God. I'm one of those girls who don't give the mic away. It's a problem. I'm a closeted pop star.

Jenna Dewan

#12. Nothing has happened to me out of the closet that was anywhere near as dangerous as being closeted.

Karen Thompson Walker

#13. I don't feel closeted.

Adam Lambert

#14. It was wild and dark and grand and tall and fierce and haunting all at once. And it thrilled me to the core. It thrilled me and it frightened me, for it whipped at my carefully closeted heart, much as the wind had whipped at my hair and skirts and sent my bonnet tumbling.

Julianne Donaldson

#15. Alec was closeted, shy, obviously insecure, and obviously hung up on his blond friend Trace Wayland.

Cassandra Clare

#16. I'm such a closeted nerd.

Cassie Scerbo

#17. Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

Woodrow Wilson

#18. I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.

Michael C. Hall

#19. I'm excited for the new crop of gay comics who have never been closeted, who never thought that they needed to put on a dress to tell a joke, and it's exciting.

Guy Branum

#20. I've always loved musical theatre. I've always been a big kind of closeted musical theatre nerd. I really have always dreamed about being able to do musical theatre.

John Gallagher Jr.

#21. The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.

Natalie Merchant

#22. So she spends until about eleven A.M. reading, re-reading, and understanding the new changes in the Project. There are many of these, because this is a Monday morning and Marietta and her higher-ups spent the whole weekend closeted on the top floor, having a

Neal Stephenson

#23. He left the room, and closeted himself in the dark, buzzing space where he raised his wasps and plotted the courses of heavenly bodies.

Kim Newman

#24. I am a proud member of the LGBT community and could never bear the idea that someone could say I was closeted.

Amber Heard

#25. From the very beginning of this movement, Scientology has always been a very closeted organization. That aura of secrecy is something that the present-day management continues.

Lawrence Wright

#26. It's a terrible way to live, to be closeted, to always be worried about being found out. To live this double life is really trying.

Sean Maher

#27. Outside of being an actress, I feel like being out is the biggest way that gay people can change perception. There are people that give millions of dollars to gay organizations but are closeted to their own families.

Jill Bennett

#28. That?" I glanced back to the door where JT had disappeared. "That was Genus Homo, species Whowantstofuckus, subspecies Closeted Headup Hisassia. Let us move on to the cages with the interesting animals."
Jacob "Yasha" Livingston

Z.A. Maxfield

#29. Bisexuals need to recognize that their being closeted is a huge contributing factor to the hostility they face.

Dan Savage

#30. Lots of teenage girls have taken comfort under the wings of half-closeted gay boys.

Tina Fey

#31. Al come on. The woman's, like, senile,' I said under my breath. 'Last year she thought me and Hammond were a closeted couple.

Kieran Scott

#32. Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.

Kara Swisher

#33. Every atheist who believes in morality, gravity, and does math is a closeted believer.

Todd Friel

#34. Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic. You gotta represent!

Tate Taylor

#35. Not to give too big of a spoiler, but I never find myself thinking, for example, Oh, remember that crazy time I stumbled on that closeted Republican candidate's sex tape?

Kathleen Rooney

#36. The truth is, I probably would be dead if I had become a star, because at that point I was so closeted and so afraid of people of finding out I was gay. There was no telling what would have happened.

Shane McAnally

#37. Apparently some of the guys in gay-for-pay really were straight.

Amy Lane

#38. I've always been a very private individual. For a lot of reasons. But mainly one. The man I lived with for all that time. The monster in the closet who I protected.

Dan Skinner

#39. Frantically, he scans the room, settling on the closet.
Brayden sighs, 'Seriously, dude? Must we live the cliche?'

Lynn Kelling