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Just because you're working does not mean you're making money. That's two very different things in show business.

~Billy Porter

Topics: Because Business Different Different Things Does Just Just Because Making Making Money Mean Money Show Show Business Things Two Very Working You

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There's this misconception that I've been turning down roles. It's just not true. The reality is, there was nothing for me to do, nobody was calling, the phone wasn't ringing.

~Billy Porter

Topics: Been Calling Down Just Me Misconception Nobody Nothing Phone Reality Ringing Roles True Turning

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I love the community of theater. There is something about the camaraderie: People who show up eight times a week to do a show. It's unlike any other business. It's just lovely. You feel like you're in a family.

~Billy Porter

Topics: About Any Business Camaraderie Community Eight Family Feel Just Like Love Lovely Other People Show Something Theater Times Unlike Up Week Who You I Love

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I had to come out to my mother three times over a twelve-year period, but I first came out to her when I was sixteen. It didn't go over so well, because I grew up in the Pentecostal Church. It was a very strict environment. She has since done a lot of work and has really blown my mind. She has learned about my life and has changed her mind.

~Billy Porter

Topics: About Because Blown Came Changed Church Come Done Environment First Go Grew Had Her Learned Life Lot Mind Mother My Life Out Over Pentecostal Period Really She Since Sixteen Strict Three Times Up Very Well Work

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I always said if I played a drag queen, I'd want to create a template with the realness they talk about in 'Paris Is Burning.'

~Billy Porter

Topics: About Always Burning Create Drag Paris Played Queen Realness Said Talk Want

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I was fine being in the closet at the beginning of my career because that's what you were supposed to be - until I realized that it didn't serve anybody, and I was left feeling utterly empty. This is who I am, so I've gotta be me.

~Billy Porter

Topics: Am Anybody Because Beginning Being Career Closet Empty Feeling Fine Gotta Left Me Realized Serve Supposed Until Utterly Were Who You I Am

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I'm not one of those actors who gets so taken by a role that I can't live my life. I'm the type of actor who goes to work, transforms into a character, takes you on a journey, and then comes back home to be Billy. When I'm in it, I'm in it, but I know how to get out of it. When you can't shut it off, you're a crazy person. I'm not crazy.

~Billy Porter

Topics: Actor Back Billy Character Crazy Crazy Person Get Gets Goes Home How Journey Know Life Live My Life Off Out Person Role Shut Taken Takes Then Those Type Who Work You

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I'm in love with what a high heel does to a leg: how it makes a woman or a man feel. It's empowering.

~Billy Porter

Topics: Does Empowering Feel Heel High How Leg Love Makes Man Woman

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I'm trying to embrace social media because it gives artists a little more power than we've had in the past.

~Billy Porter

Topics: Artists Because Embrace Gives Had In The Past Little Media More More Power Past Power Social Social Media Than Trying

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When I had a record deal in the '90s, that was my dream - to make an album like Barbra Streisand's Broadway album - and they laughed me out of the room. Broadway wasn't cool. But artists like Michael Buble and Josh Groban have brought the classic genre back to the forefront, so I'm trying to find my way inside that market.

~Billy Porter

Topics: Album Artists Back Broadway Brought Classic Cool Deal Dream Find Forefront Genre Had Inside Josh Laughed Like Make Market Me Michael Out Record Record Deal Room Streisand Trying Way

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: September 21st, 1969

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