Gale Harold quotes
“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.”
[on how Randy’s butt tastes]: “Salty. He’s a fairly hygienic person I would think. Not like saltines, more like a neck. A little cumin I guess.”
-Windy City Times, November 2000
[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 his female fan-base]: “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 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.”
[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 tank top
[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’.”
[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. ”
[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…”
“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
“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.”
[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?”
-New York Metro, April 2002
“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.”
[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!”
[sex scenes again]: “It’s like osmosis because unconsciously I’m learning things just by being in Brian’s skin.”
[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