Neil Patrick Harris
The star of the long-running series "How I Met Your Mother" disclosed to the public about his sexuality. The actor is in a longtime relationship with David Burtka. Reuters

Neil Patrick Harris just wrapped up his legendary role of nine years as the funny and adorable womanizer, Barney Stinson on CBS' "How I Met Your Mother." He's as adorable and funny in real life, even though he's not a womanizer. He's out and proud as gay and he thinks not lying about who he is actually propelled his career than destroyed it. His TV role as Barney Stinson and other movie roles proved this.

On a Rolling Stone interview, where he also stripped down to nothing but just a bow tie and a top hat covering his private part, Neil Patrick Harris claimed that coming out may have actually saved his career. Just like his racy cover, Neil Patrick Harris does not believe in hiding anything and being so guarded. "Once all the cards were on the table, I got more opportunities than ever," Neil shares to Rolling Stone. "Some actors don't get hired because you can't look into their soul and see what they're like, because they're kept guarded."

His being gay did not hurt his career at all. In an earlier interview where he opened up about coming out as gay in Hollywood, his primary reason was because again, he does not want anything suppressed. "For me, I fell in love with a dude and started spending all my time with him," the 40-year-old actor said of his partner of nine years, David Burtka, during his recent visit to HuffPost Live. "And therefore, you don't want to be suppressive of that. And so as I started working more frequently, with more eyes on us, I figured that that was inevitability and the opposite would be, again, suppressive."

In the same interview, the actor said that Hollywood is not as guarded anymore. "I think we live in a time now when people seem less concerned about who you're F-ing, and more importantly who you fall in love with," he said. "It's not quite such a freak show."

As much as he enjoyed coming out, he is not as supportive of people pushing gays to come out. "I don't think doing it in an exploitative way makes sense," he claimed. "I just feel like that whole world is very personal. I think it's not a good idea...Here's a good analogy-if you're going to jump into the pool and you're not sure how to swim, it's probably not so effective to just push someone into the pool...It's probably not the best way."