Words matter. These are the best Del Shores Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
With my work, I always want to people to just forget about anything stressful going on in their lives and be fully entertained. Laughter is key. If they shed a tear or go home thinking about the play, that’s a bonus.
When I wrote ‘Southern Baptist Sissies,’ that was the first time that I really ventured out into pure drama with themes where there was not one laugh sometimes. But I’ve always gravitated organically to blending tones and usually get good reviews about that. That’s what life is about.
I’m a gay man and a proud gay man and a loud gay man.
If you cast the right actor, it not only compliments your work, it elevates your work.
‘Sordid’ is rather unique. That’s why so many gay fans are comfortable to share ‘Sordid Lives’ with their families. It’s not really a gay story. It’s just much more a family story that happens to have gay members, which most people do.
Through the years, I have been overwhelmed by the number of people who have shared how much they relate to my ‘Sordid Lives’ family, and how many gay men and women used it to come out to their conservative families through the humor of the film.
I was there in 2009 for the Matthew Shepard Foundation dinner. I was honored with an award – Making A Difference Award. It was a wonderful night.
I started writing ‘Southern Baptist Sissies’ right after I had written the screenplay for ‘Sordid Lives’, so that’s when I started on a darker path in telling the truth about my journey in the church, but there was still a lot of funny.
Good southern boys always have this connection with their mom.
I tell stories, and I do it through writing, through acting, through my stand-up, and through directing. All the hats I wear – producing as well – ultimately, I am a storyteller.
‘Queer as Folk’ is gay gay gay gay gay.
I consider myself a religious person, but when it comes to God and faith, I don’t know. I guess that means I’m agnostic.
I came from the theatre, which had given me opportunities in television as well as a film adaptation of my second play ‘Daddy’s Dyin’… Who’s Got The Will?’ for MGM.
I have no regrets of fighting for four years to get ‘Sordid Lives’ on the small screen. It was a fantasy. I mean, I got to work with amazing actors like Rue McClanahan!
So many kids are still sitting in pews being told they are not worthy of God’s love. ‘Sissies’ will show them they are not alone, and I hope that healing will follow.
