A Quote by Gus Kenworthy

I spent 24 years in the closet wanting to talk so desperately about who I was and what I am but too afraid to.

Gus Kenworthy

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Gus Kenworthy
British - Athlete
Born: October 1, 1991

I am not allowed to be afraid. My mother made me like that. As a child, if I was afraid of the dark, she would lock me in the closet. Things like this. And she would talk about the time she spent in the concentration camp, but not about being afraid, only about the good side of it.

Diane von Furstenberg

I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.

Sara Rue

I made a film about adolescence and what going through it is like for a specific group of girls. Adolescence is always about wanting desperately to be individuals, and also about wanting desperately to fit in. For every teenager it's about finding that balance.

Linda Goldstein Knowlton

I was only 24 then, but 18 of those 24 years had been dedicated to wanting to get to that moment.

Marion Jones

That's where I spent of lot of my high-school years -- in the closet. It wasn't too cramped, but you do get really hot.

Amy Lee

Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.

Antony Sher

We didn't talk about devil on the set. My mother and I didn't talk about it. Billy Friedkin and I didn't talk about it. It was a closet subject. But it was the best thing that happened because I had no idea what I was going.

Linda Blair

I never look at myself as a closet actor wanting to make music or a closet musician wanting to act — I’m very proud to do both and I don’t put one above the other, I’m very grateful and excited by both opportunities — it’s really a unique opportunity to do both.

Jared Leto

I spent so many years not understanding my own gender identity, not having the language to talk about it, and not feeling safe in many environments to talk about it.

Asia Kate Dillon

I feel like the menswear blogger is a special breed, and by that, I mean they really have brought menswear out of the closet and into the public discourse where guys are not afraid to talk about style, dressing, clothes.

Nick Wooster

But everybody is afraid of death; that too is contagious. Your parents are afraid of death, your neighbors are afraid of death. Small children start getting infected by this constant fear all around. Everybody is afraid of death. People don't even want to talk about death.

Rajneesh

The closet exists because people don't talk about it, so that people going into political careers make a calculation early on. They say to themselves, "well, the closet is under the radar, I can do this."

Kirby Dick

I spent 24 and a half years in prison

Ahmed Ben Bella

Wanting anything too desperately is a form of aggression and violence, which will always be met with resistance.

Bryant H. McGill

I spent 24 years in the United States Army.

Richard Ojeda

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 sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.

Randy Harrison

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