T.R. Knight.___________
'This is the only drug I've ever thought worth taking. ... This stuff keeps me sane and happy. I could write without it ... if I were sane and happy. I'd say it's a great drug—but obviously it's not very healthy. You can't afford to smoke it if you've got anything to do. ... You've got to be in the right position to take it. You've got to have achieved most of your ambitions because it chills you out to such a degree that you could lose your ambitions.' — Gay singer George Michael as he lit up a marijuana cigarette during an Oct. 20 interview in Spain with the British TV program The South Bank Show. The episode aired Oct. 31.
'The public think I'm a man on the brink of a breakdown because I fell asleep in my car, I hit a parked car and because I cruise as a gay man. I feel good. I live in the house of my dreams with the man of my dreams. I'm happy with the music I'm making—and I'm still loaded. I'm enjoying my life. ... I hope my future is very different. I hope I learn to shut my mouth. If I did, I would probably have all the sex I like, wherever I like. Which I do anyway. I should learn to shut my mouth and sing. That would be clever.' — Gay singer George Michael in an Oct. 20 interview with the British TV program The South Bank Show.
'There was a very, very strong physical attraction, a spiritual attraction and an emotional attraction. [ I was ] completely taken aback by his kindness, his humanity, his compassionate nature, his sense of fun. We had so many things in common. He asked for my phone number at the end of the night, and it just went on from there.' — David Furnish on meeting his partner, Elton John, to the Toronto gay newspaper Xtra!, Sept. 26.
'By and large, we're very happy. There are things about him that, in an ideal world, I'd love to change, and I'm sure he'd say the same thing about me, but then that's not the person that I fell in love with. A relationship isn't about making your partner perfect.' — David Furnish, Elton John's partner, to the Toronto gay newspaper Xtra!, Sept. 26.
'I'm not an Elton John type of gay. I'm not vanilla. ... If you're a common or garden homosexual then maybe, but not if you're a fag like I am.' — Boy George in a new British Channel 4 documentary, as quoted by The Independent, Oct. 15.
'Madonna ... I just think she's a vile, hideous, horrible human being with no redeeming qualities. There's nothing nice about her. I've never heard anyone say anything nice about her at all. And anyone that's ever met her she's been vile to. Vile, full of herself—so unspiritual. How has this woman got away with it for so long?' — Boy George in a new British Channel 4 documentary, as quoted by The Independent, Oct. 15.
'I do a lot of Planned Parenthood and NARAL events and I keep trying to find a way to make the joke like, 'This is why I don't date men anymore. I'm so concerned about abortion rights in this country. God forbid something should happen to me. That's why I now have a girlfriend.' I can't find a way to make that joke.' — Openly lesbian Cynthia Nixon, who played Miranda on Sex and the City, to the lesbian magazine Curve, November issue.
'I don't know what it is about Toronto, but for some reason I'm like a rock star here. I mean, people like me well enough in the States, I'm not complaining. But in Toronto I get a subtly different response—there's an actual thrill in the air. It's great, but I never know quite what to do with it. Like, afterward, some of the people who came up to get their books signed were so flustered to meet me they couldn't speak clearly.' — Dykes To Watch Out For cartoonist Alison Bechdel writing on her blog, Oct. 12.
'I do have regrets in my life. I regret that Michelle Pfeiffer was married when we did 'One Fine Day.' And that Julia [ Roberts ] and Catherine Zeta-Jones were married, too. Also Matt Damon, but that's a different story. I'd like a crack at him.' — Actor George Clooney speaking at an American Cinematheque tribute to him, as quoted by New York's Daily News, Oct. 17.
'I guess there have been a few questions about my sexuality, and I'd like to quiet any unnecessary rumors that may be out there. While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that I'm gay isn't the most interesting part of me.' — Actor T.R. Knight, who plays Dr. George O'Malley on Grey's Anatomy, to People magazine, Oct. 19.