Quotes About Stigma

Being in a heterosexual relationship for a woman is always implicitly a little bit humiliating.

I'm as heterosexual as any person need be. I'm open about my relationships - or lack thereof - in my own life, because I want to make the case that gay isn't contagious. It's not something that you can catch or learn or choose.

We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries.

When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'

Hindi film heroes never age but Hindi film heroines age fast.

You'll hear 'Hippie,' or, 'Get a haircut.' I like it. I think it's funny because they think we've never heard that before. So, like, good one.

At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.

If you're a 'character actor,' you get hired to play baddies a lot.

HIV is not a gay or straight disease. It's a young people's disease, unfortunately.

To tell you the truth, I'm shocked, as I travel across this country, at how little people know or don't want to know about HIV/AIDS. There are a lot of people who don't know that HIV is one thing and AIDS is another. Those people just think it's one big old alphabet of a disease.

My having HIV has no bearing on my business.

A lot has changed since the 1980s, when the United States was a country with one of the greatest numbers of people infected with HIV.

Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.

The first HIV movie in India, 'Nidaan,' was done by me which at that time nobody dared to even try.

I was told growing up that the arts were just a hobby - that I couldn't do it as a career.

Wrestling isn't looked upon like the other sports of football, baseball, basketball and hockey.

Being a ballet dancer isn't cool. Football, boxing, hockey... they're cool. And you make more money.

If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.

There is no way a non-Jew could say what I did in 'The Holocaust Industry' without being labelled a Holocaust denier. I am labelled a Holocaust denier, too.

I had people think I was brilliant, then 'Half Baked' bricked. They literally look at me like a homeless person.

At drama school, a casting director asked the class to walk round the room one at a time, and we had to imagine who they might be. The two before me were described as a doctor and a businessman, but when it came to me, they said homeless person. That was when I thought I'd better do something about my appearance!

I am hated in my hometown.

Honestly, if the worst these people can say about me is that I'm gay, then I think I'll be fine. I can handle it.

AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.