Portia de Rossi Quotes - Page 2

I've had so many interviews where the last question is, Are you gay? I had to find very creative ways to say that I was gay, but that I wasn't going to talk about it.

Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself.

I didn't understand that playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationship's collapse. No one can be any one thing all the time.

She'd tell me how she'd handle the backhanded compliment by smiling and pretending she was receiving a genuine compliment all the while ignoring their attempt to be insulting. After all, it's the way an insult is received that makes it an insult. You can't really give offense unless someone takes it.

I was very sexual from a very young age.

Every animal has its own intelligence and sensitivities. They're all lovely, worthwhile, and deserving of our respect.

When I watched Ellen come out in '97, my jaw was on the floor. I thought, There are some people who break the doors down, hold them open, and some people who walk right through.

I wondered if that's what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a place of peace. I had always wanted to get old so I didn't have to care anymore, but I began to think that it would be best just to skip the getting older part and just die.

Being sick allows you to check out of life. Getting well again means you have to check back in. It is absolutely crucial that you feel ready to check back into life because you feel as though something has changed from the time before you were sick. Whatever it was that made you feel insecure, less than, or pressured to live in a way that was uncomfortable to you has to change before you want to go back there and start over.

I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that.

I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.

I would eat 300 calories a day - a lot of Jell-O and no-sugar everything, of course. I was doing Pilates, weight-training, circuit training; over lunch I would run on a treadmill in my dressing room with a fan on my face so I wouldn't sweat my makeup off.

I'm really attracted to strong women. Let me rephrase that, I'm really attracted to strong female characters.

Even if I'm hormonal and I feel like I've got a couple pounds of water weight, I will never starve myself, I will never, ever go on a diet.

I never, ever, restrict food, and I will never go on a diet ever again.

I have a very, very healthy relationship with food in that I eat whatever I want, whenever I want. I never restrict quantities or types of food.

People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent.

I love body parts, especially hands.

I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality.

I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn't right for me.

In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me.

If I was 14 and knew some gay people, I wouldn't nearly have had the struggle I had. Our world is definitely changing.

I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that's where my heart was.

If you've looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That's just the way it is.

I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school - and I'm still deferred.