Richard Chamberlain Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so well.

Julie Harris

#3. My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain.

Michele Lee

#4. I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace.

Christopher Atkins

#5. I went to an Arts High School, so everyone there was kind of anti-clique, though they still happened. I guess I was in the theatre-dork clique. Not to be confused with the musical-theatre-dork clique.

Finn Wittrock

#6. She put her feet down gently. The whole world was made of glass, and the glass was full of champagne, and Bunnatine was a bubble, just flicking up and up and up.

Kelly Link

#7. I pattern my actions and life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might admire attributes in others, but use these only as a guide in improving yourself in your own unique way. I don't go for carbon copies. Individualism is sacred!

Richard Chamberlain

#8. I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No, that's dangerous and they'll boomerang.

Richard Chamberlain

#9. We're all fallen people in a fallen world.
Where does a man find healing amid so many broken places? How does he find love in the ruins and vine-wrapped shattered pieces of his own soul?
Because love's springing up through the rocks.

Charles Martin

#10. The signs are just not subtle enough to pass onto oversight in lieu of self preservation.

Daleen Van Tonder

#11. Every winner has scars.

Herbert Newton Casson

#12. Over a long period of time, living as if you were someone else is no fun.

Richard Chamberlain

#13. I actually feel sorry for people who have a lot of illusions in their head about what gay is. I mean, I know some gay people who are really wonderful people.

Richard Chamberlain

#14. I've learned, I think, to be able to distinguish between the necessary and the unnecessary as far as my limited outside time is concerned. Saying 'no' politely is a necessity if one wants to lead any kind of stable life.

Richard Chamberlain

#15. Nothing is secret once you tell anyone. If you want to keep it quiet - don't tell a soul.

Richard Chamberlain

#16. We are living in a demented world. And we know it. It would not come as a surprise to anyone if tomorrow the madness gave way to afrenzy which would leave our poor Europe in a state of distracted stupor, with engines still turning and flags streaming in the breeze, but with the spirit gone.

Johan Huizinga

#17. Giving someone or something our entire attention, with no preconceived ideas or agendas whatever, is the essence of love.

Richard Chamberlain

#18. I loved him more fiercely than I'd love anyone. But he didn't love me back.

Cassandra Rose Clarke

#19. Despite all the wonderful advances that have been made, it's still dangerous for an actor to talk about that in our extremely misguided culture. Look at what happened in California with Proposition 8. Please, don't pretend that we're suddenly all wonderfully, blissfully accepted.

Richard Chamberlain

#20. 'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.

Richard Chamberlain

#21. I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others.

Richard Chamberlain

#22. For an actor to be working at all is a kind of miracle, because most actors aren't. So it's just silly for a working actor to say, 'Oh, I don't care if anybody knows I'm gay' especially if you're a leading man. Personally, I wouldn't advise a gay leading man-type actor to come out,

Richard Chamberlain