Portia De Rossi Quotes

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.

There's a fine line between being private and being ashamed.

Just look at all the awards shows now. It has turned into a catwalk. You have to be wearing a certain designer, a certain dress, and everyone's critiquing.

Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.

And I somehow always felt less lonely when I was completely alone.

Most important, in order to find real happiness, you must learn to love yourself for the totality of who you are and not just what you look like.

My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me.

True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be.

Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.

When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear.

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

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.

Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress.

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

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

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

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 love being able to wear dresses and clothes that make me feel feminine and beautiful, and I love the fact that I don't have to all the time; I can wear a tank and jeans.

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

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

I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been.

I had to find a relationship with someone who could simultaneously make me grow up and keep me forever young.

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 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.

We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting.

I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking.

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

Women in the postfeminist era, while supposedly strong and commanding and equal to men in every sense, looked weaker and smaller than ever before.

Normal" isn't an adjective you wish to hear after putting that much effort into making sure it was spectacular.

I love to work. I really enjoy getting up really early and driving downtown. I just really love the process of acting and being on a series.

I highly recommend inviting the worst-case scenario into your life.

Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing.

You don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering.

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.

It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.

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.

Shame weighs a lot more than flesh and bone.

I knew I wasn't attractive, and I was very happy about that. I didn't want to be attractive. I didn't want to attract. As long as no one wanted to be let in, I didn't have to shut anyone out.

I was trying to find a reason for having had to escape from the place that was my home. To convince myself of my choices, I had to make it a place that everyone should want to escape from.

I'm not quite as limber, but for my peers and my age group, I'm still top notch!

I was very sexual from a very young age.

I want to exude strength and intelligence.

Writing to her, I was no longer lonely... I could tolerate anything as long as I had a notepad and a pen and could pour my heart out to her in these letters.

You treat me better than I've ever treated myself.

When it’s quiet in my head like this, that’s when the voice doesn’t need to tell me how pathetic I am. I know it in the deepest part of me. When it’s quiet like this, that’s when I truly hate myself.

Playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationship's collapse. Noone can be any one thing all the time.