Randy Harrison Quotes

• When you watch it, you’re like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn’t feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.

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• The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives – I have no experience with it. It’s really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that’s just how it is.

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• It’s upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren’t an issue all the time. It’s funny that people say it’s a departure, because I’ve been acting since I was a child. I’ve played three gay roles out of hundreds.

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  It’s nice to see that people in Middle America are really affected.

   

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• It’s a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.

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• It’s a clique that I’ve never been a part of. It’s not like I identify them in a negative way.

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• It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there’s a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.

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• It always weirds me out and makes me unhappy that some people think I’m Justin. I’m not. People can be talking to me and I know they think they are talking to Justin. It’s hard to explain.

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• 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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• I’m confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don’t know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.

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

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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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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