Quotes by Tommy Dorfman - Page 1

I was like the party kid. I was a social butterfly.
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Butterfly
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I'm a cleaner, a put-er away-er, an organizer of things.
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Organizer
Cleaner
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I always hated that clothing was gendered when I was young.
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Clothing
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I always shopped in the girls' section during elementary school.
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Elementary School
Elementary
Section
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I loved experimenting with eyeshadow and lip gloss in my tween years.
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Gloss
Lip Gloss
Experimenting
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I loved having bonfires in the winter with my friends in the backyard.
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Winter
Backyard
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This idea that you can 'cure' homosexuality is appalling and simply not true.
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Homosexuality
Appalling
Cure
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I love being home and being cozy, even if it's in a nightgown and some UGG boots!
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Boots
Cozy
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LGBTQIA inclusion in media, especially TV and film, is not just important, it's essential.
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Inclusion
Tv And Film
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In just living my life, there's a responsibility to be true to myself, to be a responsible human.
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Be True
Just Living
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'13 Reasons Why' was my first professional job out of college, so I don't have much to compare it to.
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Compare
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Off the top of my head, Alan Cumming was probably my biggest inspiration, as an actor and as a queer person.
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Alan
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I try to spend as little time thinking about myself as possible. I find that's not a constructive way to live.
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Constructive
Little Time
Time Myself Thinking
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I think for me, I just love that trust you have with theater and your ensemble and people you are working with.
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Ensemble
Love Trust Your
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To work with a brand like ASOS that reaches such a young audience and to spread the message of GLAAD is exciting.
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Spread
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As nice as it is to make an appearance at an event, I don't find that the most fulfilling way to support an organization.
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Appearance
Fulfilling
Organization
Support
Event
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I feel like, almost overnight, and this is weird to say about myself, I've become a queer advocate without even meaning to.
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Advocate
Overnight
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It's really rare that you find a designer who's willing to dress people who maybe present more masculine in their womenswear.
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Designer
Masculine
Willing
Rare
Present
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It's important for teenagers, young adults, parents, teachers, really everyone to see what the true High School experience is.
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Teenagers
Young Adults
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Be kind to yourself and take the time you need to define your gender and sexuality in a way that feels safe and right for you.
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Be Kind
Gender
Sexuality
Time Yourself Your
Define
Time Yourself Way
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I was that gay kid in high school who didn't have a lot of close friends but circulated amongst groups of people when necessary.
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Close Friends
Amongst
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But basically, at the end of the day, I want to do meaningful work that I'm proud of - whether only 3 people see it or 300,000,000.
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Meaningful
Work End Of The Day Day
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When I wear makeup, it's never intense; I don't do drag. My style has always been naturalistic and then a pop of color for the eye.
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Drag
Naturalistic
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Instead of going to a GLAAD event and standing on a soapbox, I am writing roles that I feel will change the narrative and open doors.
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Doors
Narrative
Soapbox
Standing
Change I Am Will
Event
Instead
Open Doors
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It's challenging to find self-love when there's confusion and you're living in a world that's seemingly very binary and black and white.
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Binary
Black And White
Confusion
Self Love
Black And White World Black
Seemingly
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It's so important to have a brand as big as UGG celebrating young LGBTQ-plus people and giving them a safe space to feel worthy and loved.
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Worthy
Celebrating
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There is no Cura Gay, there's just gay. Or not. Or however you identify, and nobody should have say over something so personal and inherent.
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Inherent
Identify
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When I was in high school, there weren't a lot of out gay actors playing gay roles. I didn't see myself represented truthfully in the media.
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Truthfully
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I would like to know how to get my name stamped on a coconut so when people come over to my house I can just hand them one with my name on it.
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People Name Know
Coconut
Stamped
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It's important to celebrate how far we have come while also fighting for justice for those who are still not safe as a result of how they identify.
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Celebrate
How Far
Identify
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I do think some older people in the gay community could be better influencers for gay youth, better educators. I made it a point to be that person.
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Gay Community
Older People
Educators
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I thought my first few jobs would just be off, off, off, off, off broadway. And by chance and how the world works, I ended up on a TV show instead.
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Broadway
Ended
Just Be
Tv Show
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I've been wearing makeup for as long as I can remember. I started by playing with my mom's lipsticks, then in ballet I would apply my own stage makeup.
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Ballet
Makeup
Stage
Apply
Wearing
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I'm a people pleaser, and I want to help everyone who DM's me, so I make sure to promote organizations that fans can reach out to if they're struggling.
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Me People Fans
Pleaser
Promote
Struggling
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There always has to be a coming out. There's never just a gender-nonconforming person who exists on a TV show without some screaming on-the-street moment.
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Screaming
Tv Show
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I'm sober now, but I was partying a lot. Part of it was because gay bars felt like safe spaces... a place where you feel safe and comfortable in your own skin.
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Bars
Safe
Sober
Skin
Partying
Spaces
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I grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, the youngest of five. There's something about being the youngest and wanting to be seen. You're like, 'I want attention, notice me.'
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Atlanta
Georgia
Notice
Youngest
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Pride is a time to celebrate our community, publicly display our love for one another, and continue our protest of equality that stems back to the BlackCat and Stonewall Riots.
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Celebrate
Display
Our Community
Protest
Publicly
Riots
Stems
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I love when an outfit embodies the fluidity of my gender - it makes me feel the most confident and grounded, especially when attending fashion shows, which can be extremely overwhelming.
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Attending
Fluidity
Grounded
Overwhelming
Love Me Feel
Embodies
Outfit
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Maybe I've limited my opportunities by being so open about my sexuality, but my thinking is that, if I come out of the gates this way, then it's not really going to be a big deal in a couple of years.
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Big Deal
Gates
Sexuality
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I decided that I was going to stop trying to convince older, more established heads of studios or networks to understand me and get me, and focus more on developing relationships with people who already do.
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Convince
Decided
Developing
Studios
Focus Me People
Established
Networks
Heads
Relationships
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'13 Reasons Why' includes LGBTQ people and people of color in stories without making it about that. They're just living, breathing, human beings who happen to be different from the white, cis, straight norm.
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Breathing
Norm
Be Different
Just Living
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I have a big problem with cis straight men. I'm sort of discriminatory against them and it's going to take work for me to find a way to build a relationship with those people and trust that those people can be allies.
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Relationship
Trust
Allies
Problem
Build
Against
Big Problem
Discriminatory
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It was exciting to play a gay person in high school who's really proud of himself and isn't dealing with the sort of typical story line - the coming-out story - but is already out and sort of an advocate in his own way.
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Typical
Advocate
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In the beginning, editorial always inspired my beauty looks, but we're living in a primarily digital age, and Instagram is a great source - as is Pinterest - to find brilliant ideas that spark new ideas in me and the talented makeup artists I work with.
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Digital Age
Instagram
New Ideas
Pinterest
Editorial
Great Source
In The Beginning
Primarily
Spark
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I feel like Hollywood likes to use gay people to tell either really sad gay stories starring straight actors, or everything's about a struggle. Everything's about coming out. Nothing was about just living and breathing as a human being who happens to be gay.
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Just Living
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There was a period where I was like, 'I'm gonna have to be in the closet if I want to be successful.' But then I sort of made the decision right when I graduated college that that wasn't going to be my route. Even if it took longer to get work, I at least was gonna be true to myself.
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Work Myself Where
Be True
Graduated
Route
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When I heard the news of Waldemar de Carvalho issuing a ruling to approve gay conversion therapy in Brazil, after it was banned for nearly 20 years, my heart broke. So many of my fans and supporters live in Brazil and it pains me to see them not feel legitimized for who they are and who they are attracted to.
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Banned
Brazil
Broke
Conversion
Ruling
Therapy
Approve
Attracted
Pains
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