Randy Harrison Quotes

• 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.

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  Tags in Club, Ironic

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ashamed, Posture

• 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 s*xual life. You shouldn’t have to talk about it.

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  Topics in Life, Respect

  Tags in People, Sex

• Dad said that he was prouder of me than he’d ever been when I came out.

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  Tags in Prouder, Dad

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Proved, Afraid, Claim

• I can’t speak on behalf of the show. I’m not a creator; I’m just a pawn.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Speak, Show, Pawn

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Relationship, People

• I can’t walk down the street with my head up. I’m not a hat wearer, but now I’m a hat wearer.

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  Tags in Wear

• 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.

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in Interested

• I hope that they are finding satisfaction. I’m in no way making a judgment. I know it doesn’t make me happy.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Find, Satisfaction, Judgement

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Suspicion, Artist

• 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.

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  Topics in Honesty, Uncategorized

  Tags in Actor, Important

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conservatives, Agent

• I was always the shame of the family – the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.

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  Topics in Family

  Tags in Shame, Born

• 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.

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  Topics in Family

  Tags in Community, Character

• I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside – try to be someone I wasn’t to get ahead.

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  Tags in Career, Manipulate

• 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.

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Parents, Relationship

• I wonder what kind of lives they will have built for themselves when they turn 45 and can’t really have any connection with people because they are so used to fleeting s*xual.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Lives, Connection, Feeling

• I wasn’t being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn’t communicating with my parents. I wasn’t telling them what I was going through.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Group, Friends, School, Isolated

• I’ve done s*xual stuff before – onstage, which is even more emotionally difficult. With a TV crew around, you are stopping and starting; it becomes really technical. It’s not erotic at all.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Emotionally, Difficult, Technical

Randy Harrison (29)

Birth:	2nd November, 1977
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Randolph Clarke "Randy" Harrison is an American actor best known for his portrayal of  Justin Taylor on the Showtime drama Queer as Folk. Harrison was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, but moved to Alpharetta, Georgia with his family at age eleven. He attended Pace Academy, a private prep school in Atlanta.His father is an executive with a large paper company, while he has described his mother as a "thwarted artist." His only sibling, an older brother, is a bank manager.

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