Leslie Jordan Quotes

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Leslie Jordan

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 29, 1955

In the 1980s we had the huge catastrophe of AIDS and you would walk down the street and see someone who was dying. It was horrendous.

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In my day there was no one to tell me anything and I feel I have a responsibility to help a new generation. A lady in Atlanta came up to me and said: 'Honey, you are a ministry.' It is about the knowledge I can give others. I think gays will look after their own.

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In my head I have had the most torrid affairs with actors I have worked with. You should hear what George Clooney and I have got up to!

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I grew up riding. From the time I was nineteen years old to the time I was twenty five I exercised race horses.

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I was always the class clown. I was always the funny one.

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People are really surprised when they meet me that I'm a recluse. People think I'm very gregarious and outgoing - and I am - I'm thinking about writing a book about it called 'The Gregarious Recluse.' How the more that you put me out there in front of audiences, the more that when I have down time I have to disappear.

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I don't go out at night.

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Lesbian humor is nothing like gay men's humor. We're sillier.

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I'm on the road almost eight months of the year.

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I don't know what the other celebrity's lives are like but I lead a true celebrity life. I get pampered. I'm always alone.

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I'm a true Hollywood success story - knew no one, had no connections.

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There are two or three ways to combat homophobia - one is through humor. The second is to put a face on it.

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I honor the sanctity of all religions - I'm not here to put them down. But the only religion that I personally embrace is the religion of kindness.

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Honey, I conquered Netflix. I watched 'em all.

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I won an Emmy in 2006!

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I can entertain myself for hours.

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I'd do an exercise video because there are so many gay men with these perfect abs and they do exercise videos. So I did an exercise video where my stomach looked like my water's about to break.

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We figured out as a community of gay people, we have to take care of our own.

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I was there when APLA was started in somebody's living room.

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I love my family dearly.

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