I Pattern My Actions And Life After

I Pattern My Actions And Life After What I Want. No Two People Are Alike. You Might Admire Attributes In Others, But Use These Only As A Guide In Improving Yourself In Your Own Unique Way. I Don't Go For Carbon Copies. Individualism Is Sacred!

I Am Not A Romantic Leading Man Anymore So I Don't Need To Nurture That Public Image Anymore. I Can Talk About It Now Because I'm Not Afraid Anymore . . . When I Grew Up, Being Gay, Being Sissy Or Anything Like That, Was Verboten. I Disliked Myself Intensely And Feared This Part Of Myself Intensely, And Had To Hide It And Became 'perfect Richard, All-american Boy' As A Place To Hide.

For An Actor To Be Working At All Is A Kind Of Miracle, Because Most Actors Aren't. So It's Just Silly For A Working Actor To Say, 'oh, I Don't Care If Anybody Knows I'm Gay' Especially If You're A Leading Man. Personally, I Wouldn't Advise A Gay Leading Man-type Actor To Come Out.

Despite All The Wonderful Advances That Have Been Made, It's Still Dangerous For An Actor To Talk About That In Our Extremely Misguided Culture. Look At What Happened In California With Proposition 8. Please, Don't Pretend That We're Suddenly All Wonderfully, Blissfully Accepted.

I Actually Feel Sorry For People Who Have A Lot Of Illusions In Their Head About What Gay Is. I Mean, I Know Some Gay People Who Are Really Wonderful People.