Quotes from Portia de Rossi

I thought, I'm out in my life, that doesn't involve my public life.

Eating disorders are shrouded in secrecy, and there are so many things I felt very ashamed of that I could never talk about. Even though I have fully recovered, there were still things that I needed to go through again and work through.

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

I ran into Ellen at a photo shoot. She took my breath away. That had never happened to me in my life.

I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.

You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don't think you are gay. It's enough to drive you crazy.

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.

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

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

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

I had a hell of a time convincing people I was gay - which was so annoying!

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The first time I was paparazzi'd, I thought I was being investigated for an insurance claim.

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.

I was very sexual from a very young age.

I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.

I love body parts, especially hands.

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 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.