Quotes About Acceptance

I knew I could never be an actor as a man. It just doesn't work, you know? And so when I was doing drag, I realized I could do that kind of stuff, and then when I was transitioning, I kind of gave up on the whole thing because I didn't think that this time would ever come, you know?

I realized my life was not going to be, per se, normal.

My mother is who she is. I've become who I am. At some point I realized those two just didn't go together.

I guess I just process death differently than some folks. Realizing you're not going to see that person again is always the most difficult part about it. But that feeling settles, and then you are glad you had that person in your life, and then the happiness and the sadness get all swirled up inside you.

The hardest part about acting is realizing it doesn't matter.

Calling on you to give up control of the outer world and gladly accept control of your inner relationship with God, devotion is essential for fully realizing your soul's calling.

People are realizing that there is a financial consequence to not opening doors. It doesn't mean that they are any more inclusive in their hearts - it means they're more inclusive in their wallets.

My perspective is so much different now, being 41. The main difference between now and then is just realizing that your time will come to an end - and that it might not be far away. You see your face change, see the gray hairs sprouting up. When you're 24, you worry about the day you'll turn 40.

Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.

Even 'Lord of the Rings' had dwarf-tossing jokes in it. It's like, 'Really?'

I don't really have a choice. I'm getting older.

I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.

I really miss being able to blend in with people.

People think I'm a freak or something, but I'm actually a really normal guy.

You don't get everything you want. That doesn't exist in this realm.

Anything is respectable in its own realm.

Nothing is out of our realm, because it has nothing to do with color. As black people, we're not different from anyone else, other than the exterior.

In the realness categories, what happens is you walk and your peers judge you, because if you're not able to walk amongst your peers and pass as being cis male or cis female, then it's obvious that you haven't done enough work. They wanted you to be able to go outside and come back home safely.

Oddly, because she has that confidence, the people around her like her more. She becomes more a part of the Reaper family, and she also is able to get along with people more outside of their circle as well.

Sadly, I can't avoid being 75. Like many people of my age, we are all heading towards the grim reaper, and I am clinging on. I just to have to sharpen my fingernails a little so that I can hang on for longer!

My motto in life has always been 'Everything happens for a reason.' No matter what, good or bad, there is a reason for it all.

Do yourself a favor. Don't ever say to me, 'Everything happens for a reason.'

Everything in life happens for a reason and it's important to embrace it.

We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.