gale quotes
okay. i've compiled a list of some really awesome gale quotes, because no matter how he says it, gale always has something interesting to say. 's what i think, anyway. sooo,
"I've learned the most from Randy Harrison. Because of his fantastic imaginary world filled with bizarre friends. He is constantly giving us good advice."
-i don't know!
[on how randy's butt tastes]: "Salty. He's a fairly hygenic person I would think. Not like saltines, more like a neck. A little cumin I guess."
-Windy City Times, November 2000
[on justin]: "He's going straight to the top of the experiential heap, so to say."
[on his sexual orientation]: "It's not that I'm refusing to say anything, it's that I don't have any interest in talking about things that I feel are irrelevant. For me, it's just about the job and maintaining the character."
-TV Guide, December 2000
[on whether gale and brian are alike]: "Well, it's a character. I'm an actor. I mean that's a question that we could you know, spend, you know, hours answering."
-Jersey's Talking, April 2001
[on his female fanbase]: "If you're sexually attracted to men, it stands to reason that you might like to see two men in a sexual situation. It's a real baseline dynamic! And it changes the power struggle, because women never got to see that. That's a bizarre sociological result of the show."
thank you! at least gale gets the appeal.
-TheaterMania.com, April 2001
[on the sex scenes]: "Sometimes it's real comfortable and sometimes it's not. It depends on the day. With Randy, it's really easy because we work well together and we're good friends. But sometimes, when it's with a stranger, like a day player, you get guys who aren't very comfortable with the subject matter, regardless of whether we have our clothes on or not. And then it becomes tough."
-NY Blade, April 2001
[on if he enjoys dressing up]: "...The simple act of cinching a Windsor knot gets kinda deep."
[on what he does to relax]: "Legally? Music, books, cycling. Being with friends -- we're all pretty tight on the cast -- is something I love to do to unwind."
thus emerges pothead!gale :P
[on his diet]: "Sort of the bastardized "Zone" - more protein than carbs, lots of greens, lots of sushi, lots of candy."
-New York Post, April 2001
"When the work that we've done hits the screen, buy a new chair because you're going to have to sit down."
-Entertainment Tonight Online, December 2001
"In my own daily life I'm not a real, you know, sharp, kind of polished person."
[on living in san francisco]: "It gave me a lot of...gave me a lot, got a lot from there."
[on the sex scenes]: "And once you go it's like, you're gone."
"Hopefully it's gonna be more of the same, in terms of this and whatever happens next, 'cause um, I mean after doing this I'm gonna be kind of bored with something that's not, you know...I mean, it could be about ants, but as long as it's, you know, at the same level of reality, and fun."
[on the meaning of 'queer as folk']: "There's nothing as bizarre as the person that you see next to you that looks like, you know, Joe Schmo."
[same as above]: "Life is strange; people are weird, you know?"
[same as above]: "It's like, um, you may think you know, but you don't know, you know?"
-that infamous interview with the black tanktop, maybe from the end of s1? so 2001-ish? i really don't know.
[on the significance of the shell bracelet]: "When I was 17, I seduced and romantically exploited Jacques Cousteau, and the whole crew on the ship 'The Odyssey'."
"We just sort of show up and beat the shit out of each other for four or five hours, and we like it."
"That's one of the things that's really kind of, you know. And it's fun, it's really invigorating to be such a wise ass."
"We all of us love the project, and we were hoping to be cast, and hoping our involvement in the show would contribute to a successful audience response, and be the cause of subsequent seasons, and then the clowns came rushing in, and put a gun to my head."
"And I guess the kicker of the whole thing is, I can't read. But I'm working on it."
[on whether he plans on making more movies]: "I plan on it. And I hope other people plan on it as well, because our plans must coexist in a state of symbiotic fatality."
[on why he doesn't do interviews]: "Yeah, well, I'm saving it up because I'm doing a live appearance at the White House with George Bush Sr. and I didn't want to let the air out of it. I wanted it to hit really hard. We are going to be arm wrestling."
[on whether he went to school]: "No, I never went to school. I wasn't allowed to. I had to stay home and work on the farm. I mean, the pharmacy."
[on how he approaches the sex scenes - mentions hal's dog comment]: "Well, I've been making out with dogs since I was three years old, so I really couldn't use that, it didn't bring me any sort of inspiration."
[on brian's primary motivation]: "To be the best Christian he can be. And to set a good example for all the impressionable young gangsters that might take his message the wrong way. "
"Thank you all for coming, I hoped you liked the chicken, I know it was a little dry, but the microwave was broken."
-the weirdest gale interview ever, Showtime chat, January 2002
[on the sex meetings]: "How much clothes, or how little clothes they have on, how much of your pubic hair is going to be seen..."
a LOT, if this is s2 :P
-StarTV, January 2002
[on whether he's gay or straight]: "I can't figure out what to do with this question. Most of the gay men I work with assume I'm straight, so..."
"And maybe it's the bong hit he confessed to doing before our interview or his Southern upbringing-he's a good ol' Atlanta boy-but he has a mellow, refreshingly laid-back quality..."
not a gale quote, but i had to include it.
"Kissing a man...it's more animalistic. There's a primal drive with men and you can feel that the second you start kissing. It's much more visceral than kissing a woman. Women take their time. There's more play. It's not a mad dash to get your rocks off. And kissing men who, even after they've shaved, have the roughest skin. I've got the worst fuckin' burns on my face."
-Flaunt Magazine, February 2002
"There were so many little things about my childhood that were Southern, and so many that were suburban American. There was a dairy farm behind my house at one point."
"If someone doesn't want to work with me because I'm playing a gay character, I don't want to work with them. They can fuck off."
"If anyone can crack the publicity nut and figure out how to not come across hammy and contrived, I'd love to talk to them."
-The Advocate, February 2002
[on the sex scenes]: "A lot of it happens in editing, although Randy and I are certainly making out and simulating sex. We're comfortable enough with each other to be able to give them enough raw material, you know what I mean?"
*loves this quote* ;)
-New York Metro, April 2002
[on why he's there]: "This is why we came - to do this interview. Seriously."
-StarTV on the Red Carpet at "Festival Schmooze," 2002
[on the filmaking approach of wake writer-director henry leroy finch]: "If something traditional works better, he'll use it - it's not technical masturbation, since there's always a point to why he chooses a particular camera technique and so on."
[on the relationship between kyle and raymond]: "Yes, that relationship was fascinating to me. It's sort of "meta-family": in a sense, Ray and Kyle are 98% the same person, but that two percent that is different is so very potent. So Kyle is always in a state of knowing, yet-not-really-knowing, what Raymond is up to."
we've got a remix of "meta-fascinating" and "you may think you know," all in the same quote!
-Wake Q&A, 2003
"I felt some rain. Um. And it was wet."
-making of Wake, 2003. i think. if anyone has a link for this, please let me know! thanks, sandstorm63!
"I don't want to be on the treadmill of artificiality."
-In Magazine, 2004
"But for TV the real danger is that once you've titillated someone, you want to then start giving them what they want - and when that starts to figure in the structure of what we're trying to do, or what's going to happen in each episode, you start to feel a little bit exposed for no reason."
"And it becomes kind of a different experience, which [as an actor] nobody wants to do, or to do in the nude for the majority of the time that they're doing it. It's just totally distracting from everything else, right?"
-The Australian, November 2004
[on what gale's gay friends think of his characterization as a gay man]: "A lot of them are diplomatically reserved and some of them think it's hooey."
haaa, gale said hooey.
[on whether the sex scenes are a strange experience, specifically rimming]: "I read a lot of William Burroughs when I was in high school, so I had to figure out what that was a long time ago!"
omg, teenager!gale reading about rimming...i have no words.
[sex scenes again]: "It's like osmosis because unconsiously I'm learning things just by being in Brian's skin."
and he puts his newfound knowledge to practical use with randy
[on whether he's met aidan gillen, the actor who played the brian characer in qaf uk]: "I haven't, although I saw him in a restaurant once. I didn't actually see him, but my friends saw him as he was leaving. We all thought it was very weird that we were in the same place at the same time. I think he's great and I'd love to meet him."
that's just, such a gale story, i love it.
[on whether it's strange he has a large female fan base]: "If you're a top in a gay series and you're naked a lot you're definitely going to pick up some female fans, right? [Laughs]. It's fantasy by subterfuge - an anything-can-happen mind-game!"
-DNA Magazine, December 2004
[on if he learned how to shoot a gun]: "No, I wasn't trained. I have some learning, some shooting experience in my past."
just me and my dirty mind, heh.
-iF Magazine, August 2006
"I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces. [Laughs] I want to work on things that really mean a lot to me. This has been one of the best falls [the season] in my life for a long time."
-Playbill.com, October 2006
"It's a very strange play."
-BroadwayBeat.com, November 2006
"It's fascinating in kind of a, I don't know, meta-fascinating way, to, you know, work with a compelling and incredible actor such as Blythe or Carla."
-Broadway.com, November 2006
"...and that will be the culmination of everything wrong with American culture, the day Abercrombie and Fitch sponsors a NASCAR team..."
-AfterElton.com, April 2007
gale, it's been fabulous, and continually entertaining. here's hoping for many future "meta-fascinating"s and "you know"s :D
"I've learned the most from Randy Harrison. Because of his fantastic imaginary world filled with bizarre friends. He is constantly giving us good advice."
-i don't know!
[on how randy's butt tastes]: "Salty. He's a fairly hygenic person I would think. Not like saltines, more like a neck. A little cumin I guess."
-Windy City Times, November 2000
[on justin]: "He's going straight to the top of the experiential heap, so to say."
[on his sexual orientation]: "It's not that I'm refusing to say anything, it's that I don't have any interest in talking about things that I feel are irrelevant. For me, it's just about the job and maintaining the character."
-TV Guide, December 2000
[on whether gale and brian are alike]: "Well, it's a character. I'm an actor. I mean that's a question that we could you know, spend, you know, hours answering."
-Jersey's Talking, April 2001
[on his female fanbase]: "If you're sexually attracted to men, it stands to reason that you might like to see two men in a sexual situation. It's a real baseline dynamic! And it changes the power struggle, because women never got to see that. That's a bizarre sociological result of the show."
thank you! at least gale gets the appeal.
-TheaterMania.com, April 2001
[on the sex scenes]: "Sometimes it's real comfortable and sometimes it's not. It depends on the day. With Randy, it's really easy because we work well together and we're good friends. But sometimes, when it's with a stranger, like a day player, you get guys who aren't very comfortable with the subject matter, regardless of whether we have our clothes on or not. And then it becomes tough."
-NY Blade, April 2001
[on if he enjoys dressing up]: "...The simple act of cinching a Windsor knot gets kinda deep."
[on what he does to relax]: "Legally? Music, books, cycling. Being with friends -- we're all pretty tight on the cast -- is something I love to do to unwind."
thus emerges pothead!gale :P
[on his diet]: "Sort of the bastardized "Zone" - more protein than carbs, lots of greens, lots of sushi, lots of candy."
-New York Post, April 2001
"When the work that we've done hits the screen, buy a new chair because you're going to have to sit down."
-Entertainment Tonight Online, December 2001
"In my own daily life I'm not a real, you know, sharp, kind of polished person."
[on living in san francisco]: "It gave me a lot of...gave me a lot, got a lot from there."
[on the sex scenes]: "And once you go it's like, you're gone."
"Hopefully it's gonna be more of the same, in terms of this and whatever happens next, 'cause um, I mean after doing this I'm gonna be kind of bored with something that's not, you know...I mean, it could be about ants, but as long as it's, you know, at the same level of reality, and fun."
[on the meaning of 'queer as folk']: "There's nothing as bizarre as the person that you see next to you that looks like, you know, Joe Schmo."
[same as above]: "Life is strange; people are weird, you know?"
[same as above]: "It's like, um, you may think you know, but you don't know, you know?"
-that infamous interview with the black tanktop, maybe from the end of s1? so 2001-ish? i really don't know.
[on the significance of the shell bracelet]: "When I was 17, I seduced and romantically exploited Jacques Cousteau, and the whole crew on the ship 'The Odyssey'."
"We just sort of show up and beat the shit out of each other for four or five hours, and we like it."
"That's one of the things that's really kind of, you know. And it's fun, it's really invigorating to be such a wise ass."
"We all of us love the project, and we were hoping to be cast, and hoping our involvement in the show would contribute to a successful audience response, and be the cause of subsequent seasons, and then the clowns came rushing in, and put a gun to my head."
"And I guess the kicker of the whole thing is, I can't read. But I'm working on it."
[on whether he plans on making more movies]: "I plan on it. And I hope other people plan on it as well, because our plans must coexist in a state of symbiotic fatality."
[on why he doesn't do interviews]: "Yeah, well, I'm saving it up because I'm doing a live appearance at the White House with George Bush Sr. and I didn't want to let the air out of it. I wanted it to hit really hard. We are going to be arm wrestling."
[on whether he went to school]: "No, I never went to school. I wasn't allowed to. I had to stay home and work on the farm. I mean, the pharmacy."
[on how he approaches the sex scenes - mentions hal's dog comment]: "Well, I've been making out with dogs since I was three years old, so I really couldn't use that, it didn't bring me any sort of inspiration."
[on brian's primary motivation]: "To be the best Christian he can be. And to set a good example for all the impressionable young gangsters that might take his message the wrong way. "
"Thank you all for coming, I hoped you liked the chicken, I know it was a little dry, but the microwave was broken."
-the weirdest gale interview ever, Showtime chat, January 2002
[on the sex meetings]: "How much clothes, or how little clothes they have on, how much of your pubic hair is going to be seen..."
a LOT, if this is s2 :P
-StarTV, January 2002
[on whether he's gay or straight]: "I can't figure out what to do with this question. Most of the gay men I work with assume I'm straight, so..."
"And maybe it's the bong hit he confessed to doing before our interview or his Southern upbringing-he's a good ol' Atlanta boy-but he has a mellow, refreshingly laid-back quality..."
not a gale quote, but i had to include it.
"Kissing a man...it's more animalistic. There's a primal drive with men and you can feel that the second you start kissing. It's much more visceral than kissing a woman. Women take their time. There's more play. It's not a mad dash to get your rocks off. And kissing men who, even after they've shaved, have the roughest skin. I've got the worst fuckin' burns on my face."
-Flaunt Magazine, February 2002
"There were so many little things about my childhood that were Southern, and so many that were suburban American. There was a dairy farm behind my house at one point."
"If someone doesn't want to work with me because I'm playing a gay character, I don't want to work with them. They can fuck off."
"If anyone can crack the publicity nut and figure out how to not come across hammy and contrived, I'd love to talk to them."
-The Advocate, February 2002
[on the sex scenes]: "A lot of it happens in editing, although Randy and I are certainly making out and simulating sex. We're comfortable enough with each other to be able to give them enough raw material, you know what I mean?"
*loves this quote* ;)
-New York Metro, April 2002
[on why he's there]: "This is why we came - to do this interview. Seriously."
-StarTV on the Red Carpet at "Festival Schmooze," 2002
[on the filmaking approach of wake writer-director henry leroy finch]: "If something traditional works better, he'll use it - it's not technical masturbation, since there's always a point to why he chooses a particular camera technique and so on."
[on the relationship between kyle and raymond]: "Yes, that relationship was fascinating to me. It's sort of "meta-family": in a sense, Ray and Kyle are 98% the same person, but that two percent that is different is so very potent. So Kyle is always in a state of knowing, yet-not-really-knowing, what Raymond is up to."
we've got a remix of "meta-fascinating" and "you may think you know," all in the same quote!
-Wake Q&A, 2003
"I felt some rain. Um. And it was wet."
-making of Wake, 2003. i think. if anyone has a link for this, please let me know! thanks, sandstorm63!
"I don't want to be on the treadmill of artificiality."
-In Magazine, 2004
"But for TV the real danger is that once you've titillated someone, you want to then start giving them what they want - and when that starts to figure in the structure of what we're trying to do, or what's going to happen in each episode, you start to feel a little bit exposed for no reason."
"And it becomes kind of a different experience, which [as an actor] nobody wants to do, or to do in the nude for the majority of the time that they're doing it. It's just totally distracting from everything else, right?"
-The Australian, November 2004
[on what gale's gay friends think of his characterization as a gay man]: "A lot of them are diplomatically reserved and some of them think it's hooey."
haaa, gale said hooey.
[on whether the sex scenes are a strange experience, specifically rimming]: "I read a lot of William Burroughs when I was in high school, so I had to figure out what that was a long time ago!"
omg, teenager!gale reading about rimming...i have no words.
[sex scenes again]: "It's like osmosis because unconsiously I'm learning things just by being in Brian's skin."
and he puts his newfound knowledge to practical use with randy
[on whether he's met aidan gillen, the actor who played the brian characer in qaf uk]: "I haven't, although I saw him in a restaurant once. I didn't actually see him, but my friends saw him as he was leaving. We all thought it was very weird that we were in the same place at the same time. I think he's great and I'd love to meet him."
that's just, such a gale story, i love it.
[on whether it's strange he has a large female fan base]: "If you're a top in a gay series and you're naked a lot you're definitely going to pick up some female fans, right? [Laughs]. It's fantasy by subterfuge - an anything-can-happen mind-game!"
-DNA Magazine, December 2004
[on if he learned how to shoot a gun]: "No, I wasn't trained. I have some learning, some shooting experience in my past."
just me and my dirty mind, heh.
-iF Magazine, August 2006
"I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces. [Laughs] I want to work on things that really mean a lot to me. This has been one of the best falls [the season] in my life for a long time."
-Playbill.com, October 2006
"It's a very strange play."
-BroadwayBeat.com, November 2006
"It's fascinating in kind of a, I don't know, meta-fascinating way, to, you know, work with a compelling and incredible actor such as Blythe or Carla."
-Broadway.com, November 2006
"...and that will be the culmination of everything wrong with American culture, the day Abercrombie and Fitch sponsors a NASCAR team..."
-AfterElton.com, April 2007
gale, it's been fabulous, and continually entertaining. here's hoping for many future "meta-fascinating"s and "you know"s :D