Quotes About Acceptance

I'm really go-with-the-flow, but I take things really seriously. At the same time, when things don't go my way, I don't ever freak out. Why? Why freak out?

I'm quite open to the fact that I might be a tinfoil-hat freak.

I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.

Growing up in Fife, you were aware that there were these creatures called lesbians, but it was in the realms of complete freakishness. And I didn't feel like a freak.

I'm a bit of a control freak, and I had to realize you can't control everything in your life.

How do I let go of Maplewood? It's like Shangri-la. It's so culturally diverse, and all my children are adopted - a transracial family. And we're not the freaks. Everybody flies their freak flag high in Maplewood!

I don't like thinking too much about the future - it freaks me out.

All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.

Everyone says I was real cute as a kid, but from 8 to 19, I was horrible-looking, freaky.

I'm shorter, I don't have as many freckles as Ron, and I can't do magic.

I've definitely gotten more confident about showing my natural skin - even during breakouts. I've actually learned that a lot of people don't love their freckles, but I've learned to love mine.

You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.

I'm so proud that now you can exist as a gay man and be an Olympian, and it can be beneficial rather than negative. So it's amazing. And I just think I feel so liberated now that I've been out of the closet for a while, and so I'm free in that I just get to be myself, speak freely, act freely, and I think that I am competing confidently.

A friend of mine told me she's going to freeze her eggs, and I thought, 'Well, I also don't want to be a 55-year-old first time mother,' so you kind of just have to go with what happens.

I want to show that we all have the right to be ourselves, and I certainly don't want to freeze time.

French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.

I'm not saying that every night of the week, my husband, ex-husband, our children and I all sit around together like one big happy family. But we do see each other frequently, and everyone loves each other, and we are all friends.

Diversity is very, very important. I talk about it frequently. And my efforts there should never be challenged no matter what my political view.

There are days when I love a fresh blow-dry, but sometimes I just go with bedhead.

I spent freshman year trying straightness on for size and failing miserably.

I was called fried eggs and all that at school. Size does matter.

I have a friend who says, 'The world doesn't need another angry dwarf!'

I have a friend who says that roles choose you at the time that you need them most, and you have to believe, as an actor, if you didn't get a part that you really, really wanted, and it went to someone else, it was because it was theirs to begin with.

My body's my best friend.