Quotes About Acceptance

I don't want to think much about my injury in Australia. That phase is history.

After my Kannada debut, I went through a difficult phase in life. People would make fun of me behind my back, and there were days I would cry alone for hours.

We gotta let hip-hop grow. We gotta let it go through its different phases throughout the different places that's accepting it.

Seeing people decide to choose love instead of hate is phenomenal.

Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.

If the day comes when I'm no longer playing Phil Coulson, I'll very gratefully bid him farewell, because it's been an incredible journey, but I've learned that it's best to just be grateful for where I am and make the most out of that opportunity that day.

There are some extremely acceptable male comedians out there: Joel Osteen, Abraham Lincoln, the man who played Phil Spector in HBO's 'Phil Spector.' But even those guys, while insightful and amusing, aren't exactly funny.

That might be my epitaph: 'It wasn't as bad as I thought. Here lies Phil Lord.'

I really wasn't expecting to fall so hard for Phil. As a matter of fact, when my dad said he was talking to Phil Jackson about him coming to L.A. to coach the Lakers, I tried to argue against it.

I don't really like Phil Robertson and I think his opinion about gay marriage is stupid. But in a country where we want an honest conversation, we have to realize that part of the honest conversation is hearing things we don't like and discussing them.

Phil is of a generation that probably would have been happier never getting married. He just doesn't want to get married again; it's not that he doesn't want to marry me. It took me a while to understand that, and I'm fine with it now. We've been together for over 10 years. This relationship has been my longest and most successful.

From the moment I arrived in Philadelphia, the city has embraced me.

The name of the show was 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,' not 'Philip and Viv of Bel-Air.' If you didn't want to walk away from the best job in the world over a petty issue, you accepted the way it was.

Growing up in a brand-new country, coming from the Philippines, was hard. I was treated differently and felt like people thought less of me because I was Asian.

You can call me whatever. Philly Cheese. Bubble Cheese. Whatever.

There was never any animosity from the Philly fans.

I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me.

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

Usually on jobs I'm quite philosophical and think 'The right girl gets the part and everything is meant to be.'

You have to be philosophical about life, you cant angst over it too much.

Homophobia is just that: a phobia.

I photograph people as I find them. But people have issues about how they look.

I'm not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job.

I do think my childhood is one of the fundamental reasons that I'm able to do my job. We were raised in this totally nonjudgmental family. We never knew who was going to walk in the front door. And as a journalist and a photographer, you walk into so many different scenes that you have to be open to everything.