Quotes About Acceptance

Sometimes, what's helpful is to admit that we are discouraged and admit that we are at a loss.

During cancer, when I was flat out on the bed, I was so helpless. I wanted to do things my way, but it was not happening. I learnt to trust the process of life and letting other people also sometimes take control. I became more easy-going.

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

John Henry Holliday didn't have a mother to love him when he was grown, so I have taken him for my own. My fondest hope for Doc is that it will win for him the compassion and respect I think he deserves.

I would have loved to have been Henry VIII; I would have been big and fat and no one would have cared.

It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.

At the end of the day, I'm human. I'm English - I was born here. Of course I'm a different colour from you, but I'm still human. The main thing is, I'm human - like everyone else. Because I'm a different colour doesn't mean there is a difference.

The fact that we're all here in these bodies means that we're not perfected.

If I'm 'the kid from 'Hereditary'' for the rest of my life, I'll be satisfied.

My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?

I think people are more than their heritage or their skin colour or their name or how they grew up.

I didn't ask to be a hero, but I guess I have become one in the Christian community. So I accept it. But if I'm wrong about this, I guess I'll become a bum.

You're going to be the goat and you have to learn to accept it. When you're the hero, you're going to have to learn to deal with that too.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family - not even my mother - who I could look to and be like, 'I know you've never said anything homophobic.' So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you've heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

I've acted with shorter heroes, and no one has objected.

Even though my dad came from a family that was very religious, he was actually the first one who bought and let me play with Barbies. My mom, the first makeup I ever used was hers, and she never once said, 'Oh, you're so gay for doing that.'

Some people say, 'If she's so real, why does she call herself with a made-up name?' Well, India is my real name. Or they say, 'If she's so real, why does she wear makeup?' I didn't know there was anything wrong with makeup.

The woman over 50 must be very frank with herself.

I've always been someone who is pretty hard on herself. But I've lightened up a lot.

Bing was always hesitant to accept appreciation in any form.

I must admit that self-tanner is one beauty arena I've been hesitant to explore, let alone fully embrace.

I often tell audiences at the start of my shows that I'm not gay because I've got petitions from lesbian groups saying 'Can you tell people you're heterosexual because you're giving us a bad name.'

When you see white, cisgendered, heterosexual men having conversations about gender identity where they go, 'Oh, those are your pronouns? OK, great. Let's get back to work,' it allows other people to say, 'Maybe if they can do it, I can do it.'

I love women; I have women friends, but I'm definitely a heterosexual.