Julia Louis-Dreyfus Quotes

I didn't know if I was heterosexual or homosexual.

I'm not even kind of a lesbian.

I think honestly, some people who think they're gay, they're confused.

I don't really identify as gay; I don't really know what I am.

I was in the closet up until I moved to the U.S. But I was always one of those kids who couldn't really hide being gay. Some queer kids are just more straight-passing than others. I was not one of those kids.

I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from... you heterosexuals.

I didn't know what gay was. There was no such thing when I was growing up. I knew I had crushes on boys, but I didn't think there was anything wrong with that until I started to hear about it from the other kids in school.

We learn our sexual preferences and orientations.

I'm glad I'm not bisexual. I couldn't stand being rejected by men as well as women.

Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

Every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.

I'm not gay.

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don't know and can't articulate what makes a person gay, and they worry that maybe they themselves are gay.

There is no conscious choice of heterosexual identity any more than there is a homosexual one. The last person in the world who wants to be homosexual, for the most part, are homosexuals.

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

There is object proof that homosexuality is more interesting than heterosexuality. It's that one knows a considerable number of heterosexuals who would wish to become homosexuals, whereas one knows very few homosexuals who would really like to become heterosexuals.

People's sexuality is often defined by who we're partnered with at any given moment, which can be a frustrating limitation for me. I've had countless tiny 'coming out' moments in my life, often simply to explain to someone else that they have misjudged my sexuality based on who they saw me dating.

Everyone I dated was gay.

I am not gay in real life.

I used to hate myself for being gay. I couldn't come to terms with it.

My theory is the spectrum: there's a spectrum of sexuality.

Women who have been with man after man after man after man choose to become a lesbian later in life. Gay men, it doesn't work so much that way.

I discovered that I was gay when I was about nine or ten. I did go out with girls for a while, but it didn't last.

I just, I was in such denial within myself for the longest time, just because of the place I grew up in. Like, it wasn't common. I didn't know anybody that was gay. I think I had one gay friend in high school and she never even, like, came out. It was just, like, we all just knew.