Quotes About Acceptance

The idea that you can dress up in some kind of a fake Indian outfit and get on stage is somehow acceptable in this country. That has to do with the fact that you have the Redskins, the Braves, you have people who dress up like Indians, people dress up like Indians on Halloween. That is acceptable.

I often refer to myself as a gay man and all my friends are gay and I would like nothing more than for them to be able to be married.

I don't want to reclaim the word 'tranny.' I don't want anyone to refer to me as 'tranny.'

Let lying dogs sleep is something I always say in reference to the Smiths.

My grandparents would never admit to being Tasmanian, but I think it's really great and funny. But I guess, in the past, Tasmanians just weren't quite accepted. You had that lazy reference to them being felons.

I couldn't accept the racial epithets in reference to players like Elliott Maddox or Billy Sample.

It's definitely a little bit ironic being known for my hair because, as a little girl, I had no idea what I was doing with it. I was insecure about it. I didn't have as many references to curly girls, and I wanted to just fit in with all my other friends.

References help you to start but what's after that? If you can't prove yourself, if the audience doesn't accept you, you stand no chance. When I started off my father told me 'remember if you can't prove yourself no one will invest crores on you.'

I started off in this business in 1998, and I didn't fit in. There was no place for me, and I always felt like an oddball. Nobody really understood my work or what I wanted to do in my references.

I grew up in a time where there were no queer digital references.

It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people.

I have never really referred to my voice as 'gay.'

You know, I just tend to do the scene that I'm given, really. If it really needs it, then I'll go to them and ask 'What's she talking about? What's she referring to?' But often they don't know, or they do know and they're not going to tell me, so I've learned just to work with what I'm given.

Don't think of your gender as a handicap.

'I throw my hand up in the air sometimes' is when you don't get your way - when you give up, and you're handing it over.

There are a lot of things that we want to show people, and if you try to show everything about us in a single album, it's a burden for us - and it's a lot for people to handle and accept.

Listen, I always choose to see the good in people. And everybody's different, everybody chooses to handle things differently.

I have learned how to better handle things as they come.

Usually when I am in a movie that is about to come out, if people don't love it, that is fine - I can handle it.

I think you just have to take life as it goes, and I believe you never get things put on you that you can't handle.

It's tough to be left out. At Chelsea I've probably played 90 per cent of the time. It's not something I handle very well.

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.

Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'

I was once described as being mediumly handsome, and that's a right-on analysis for me.