“Let me be straight about that - no pun intended. I never came out from anywhere… It didn’t really affect anything in my career. I offered more information up about my personal life because I felt a moral obligation to do so. I just didn’t want anyone to mistake my valuing my private life for me being insecure about my sexuality and therefore propagating this relentless legacy of lies in Hollywood. I am a proud member of the LGBT community and could never bear the idea that someone could say I was closeted. I couldn’t sleep at night thinking that somebody could mistake my fierce protection of that private life as me being a part of this systematic straightening out of Hollywood, because it’s a lie.” - Amber Heard.
“There’s such tremendous disparity right now. It’s like, you have the legalization of gay marriage in the state of New York and three months later you have Jamey Rodemeyer killing himself, yet another gay teenager bullied into taking his own life. And, you know, again, as a gay man, I look at that and say there’s a hopelessness that surrounds it. But as a human being, I look at it and say, “Why? Where is this disparity coming from and why can’t we as a culture, as a society, dig deeper to examine it?” We’re terrified of facing ourselves, we’re terrified of what we’ll find and so, instead, we seem to waste time and energy with small-mindedness and intolerance and with bigotry and with hatred and with fear.” - Zachary Quinto.