Quotes About Community

Everyone at United made me really feel at home. They are decent lads at United - all of them.

I didn't come from a council estate like a lot of the lads do.

I do reach out to lads that I know who are my age: people like Charlie Plummer or Timothee Chalamet.

The lads I played football with on the street when I was a kid in Cardiff were as good as me, and in many ways, my career is due to them.

Where I'm from, to do acting is not heard of. Being one of the lads and all, you don't just go, 'Oh, I want to be an actor'. They'd laugh and joke about it.

When I was growing up, some of the lads weren't very nice about me playing.

It's nice to see young lads doing well but when it's your mates you have grown up and played with it makes it even better.

I want to be the kind of footballer who is willing to help out the young lads, even if it is only in a small way.

And it's important that when you're dual-nationality, you're with a group of lads that you enjoy being with.

You want to know why Barbra Streisand is so difficult? Because she's brilliant. She's a brilliant entertainer, she's a brilliant lady, and she's a wonderful human being, and the community doesn't like it.

My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up.

A lot of what I do around Houston is to find ways to lift people through literacy. It's become part of our family culture. Everyone in our family has found some way and capacity to serve. You don't necessarily need to be President or First Lady to serve and help.

Queerness isn't just Lady Gaga and overpriced drinks and fauxhawks. It's James Baldwin and Bea Arthur and Gertrude Stein and Gore Vidal.

We follow the rules laid out in the Bible for running our church.

Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid.

I still feel like there are so many things that I have to do to really become an icon. I've done a lot and laid down a lot of groundwork, but there's so much more work to be done. There's a lot more that I want to do, LGBTQ centers that I want to open. After I leave my legacy, then I will be that icon.

Hyderabad used to be this sweet laid back town, everything was accepted. Coming from Chennai I thought it was a town.

It's always good to be back in Salt Lake City.

I live in Salt Lake City, and I don't have a lot of gay friends.

I don't come from Lake Wobegon, and that world is not mine. It's not that funny to me. It's funny to other people, and I'm not judging it, but the world that I come from is not considered funny by other people as well. There's so much pain in it.

I feel like Salt Lake is a home for me now and it's become a home for my family.

What's special about Salt Lake, it's a small, tight-knit, close community.

They say that Salt Lake is a great place to raise a family - and I know that sounds like something people just say. But you spend enough time here... and you realize that it's true.

The Lakers fanbase is enormous. Getting the fans on our side is a huge advantage for us.