Quote: A kid brought in a BB gun and shot another kid. He was expelled. And someone got expelled for blowing up mailboxes. [Randy Harrison]
Quote: A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a gay club setting. It's just ironic that I represent that somehow. [Randy Harrison]
Quote: After the second call-back and third audition, I knew I had gotten the part. I went back to St. Louis and then back to Atlanta to drop off my stuff before I flew to Toronto to start filming. [Randy Harrison]
Quote: By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger. [Randy Harrison]
Quote: I acted all through my childhood. I went to Stagedoor Manor, this big Broadway kids' camp, when I was 9 and 11. I've done two plays a year since I was 6 until I got Queer as Folk. [Randy Harrison]
Quote: I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it. [Randy Harrison]
Quote: I can't speak on behalf of the show. I'm not a creator; I'm just a pawn. [Randy Harrison]
Quote: I can't walk down the street with my head up. I'm not a hat wearer, but now I'm a hat wearer. [Randy Harrison]
Quote: I could definitely empathize with the character, with the feelings of helplessness - if only the desperation and the feeling of isolation. [Randy Harrison]
Quote: I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are. [Randy Harrison]
Quote: I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something. [Randy Harrison]
Quote: I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get. [Randy Harrison]
Quote: I get a lot of mail from at-risk gay teens. I usually just write back and say, "Thank you." [Randy Harrison]
Quote: I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while. [Randy Harrison]
Quote: I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent. [Randy Harrison]
Quote: I hope that they are finding satisfaction. I'm in no way making a judgment. I know it doesn't make me happy. [Randy Harrison]
Quote: I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it. [Randy Harrison]
Quote: I know that I'm capable as an actor. [Randy Harrison]
Quote: I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through. [Randy Harrison]
Quote: I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead. [Randy Harrison]
Quote: I never hesitated once. I still aspire to a theater career. The amount of celebrity that I have now seems like a fluke to me. [Randy Harrison]
Quote: I started performing when I was a kid. I don't remember myself not being an actor. [Randy Harrison]
Quote: I think the gay community is split: They either love the show or love to hate it. [Randy Harrison]
Quote: I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives. [Randy Harrison]
Quote: I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North. [Randy Harrison]