Quotes About Acceptance

I just never wanted to be in a position where I wouldn't be able to walk down the street holding my partner's hand.

If I die, I know the news item would be, 'Partner of Ricky Gervais and novelist dies.' That would come first. But I've come to terms with it. As long as they do still add the 'and novelist,' that will be fine.

At 50, you have learnt to accept yourself, and that helps you also understand and accept your partner better.

We've got gay marriage, and civil partnerships, so what are transsexuals looking for?

I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone.

There is a difference between civil partnerships and marriage. That difference does not mean one is better than another.

It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.

A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.

An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens.

Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it's only been a year and half, and has made me address parts of myself that I would otherwise live in comfortable denial of, or you know and - you know, for instance, my self-loathing.

Loads of my friends are lesbians, and it really annoys me that gay people aren't allowed to get married in most parts of America. I'd go on a march for gay rights any time.

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

Come to think of it, Pasadena's as good a place to die as any.

I don't pass judgment on anybody, but personally, I prefer a more natural look. I think it's helping my longevity in my career because I'm playing my age.

Gene Roddenberry's thing always was, we should not pass judgment on anything that anyone else believes in or what they do in their lives.

Broadway is like a club I haven't been invited to, and I'm hoping that maybe they will give me a guest pass one of these days.

I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral.

My grandmother has passed away, but she was sanctified. I would not want anyone in the church to judge her because of what I do.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

A lady passed me a note in Australia one time that said, 'My daughter gets bullied at school because she has two moms, and you know, we told her just to tell them to watch 'Modern Family.'

I didn't want to accept that people would forget me, that the government wouldn't do anything to negotiate our freedom. After a year, I came to understand that not only had one year passed, many more would come.

The first time I passed as a woman in public was on leave in the U.S. from my deployment to Iraq in February 2010.