“So much of male heterosexual comedy can be steeped in a gay panic. A l...” — John Benjamin Hickey Quote

“So much of male heterosexual comedy can be steeped in a gay panic. A lot of juvenile comedy is predicated on that.”

“I remember when I was doing 'The Crucible' on Broadway with Laura Linney, and Arthur Miller had been in rehearsal with us and was on stage on opening night. She turned to me during the curtain call and said, 'Let's make sure we remember this.'”

“I think, at the end of the day, if you're a good actor, then you're a good actor.”

“Your wife doesn't want to hear a word about how hot your mistress is, and vice versa.”

“My neighborhood now is all 21-year-old European supermodels. I go to the international newsstand on the corner, and they're all looking for their pictures in 'Italian Vogue.'”

“Collaboration to me is... my favorite collaboration in the theatre is the collaboration between the actors and the audience because it's just that thing that happens when the only thing left that is left on the human scale is that human beings come to look at other human beings act out stories.”

“It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.”

“I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.”

“I leave it very open because, at the end of the day, it's one of those things where I shouldn't have to reinforce and state, 'No, I'm a heterosexual' - because that's all nonsense.”

“I'm about as privileged as you can get. I'm a white, male, heterosexual front man of a rock band.”

“The fact that a person loves one particular person is what is important; the life lesson, whether you are homosexual or heterosexual, is that you not be promiscuous, and true to one person.”

“There's no difference between a gay person and a heterosexual person at the end of the day.”