Quotes About Acceptance

Whenever I used to do sports at school, there were those children who were picked last. I just wasn't picked at all.

I don't know what's wrong with me - I don't know why I only get picked to play strange characters!

I didn't know what a boy was until I was about 18. I wasn't in the cool group at all. We weren't cool, but we weren't nerdy enough to be picked on. So we were just in our own little bubble.

It's human nature - we want to be chosen, we want to be picked and when there's this thing that isn't choosing you, that can affect your self-confidence and your self-worth.

My mother birthed three children and she adopted myself and another African-American son. My adoptive parents were Finnish. I grew up in a white picket neighborhood.

You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.

I've never been much into picking things apart.

I can't go back and change how many tackles I had, how many picks. What I've done is what I've done.

I don't quite have the luxury of cherry-picking - I have to see what comes my way. But I have always been picky.

You can't really be picky when no one is offering you anything.

There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.

I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that's always nice. And if they don't like them, then too bad.

I'm not particular. I don't have favourite pictures.

I'm aware of the other drag artists with makeup lines, and I celebrate them. The pie is big and there's room for everybody.

In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.

Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.

I have seen too many of my male friends - no matter whether they're on the football field or inside a church - bash gays and then revel in their machismo or piety.

I didn't eat entire pies or pig out on junk... I gave life and no one can or should make a woman feel bad about her body when she just had a baby.

I remember, the first few times I modelled, other girls laughed at my big behind. I felt like a fat pig, even though I really wasn't. When you are 15 and other girls nick-name you a 'little piggy' and 'fatty,' you believe them.

People need to seek out some diversity in their life. One of my friends is a pig farmer in Michigan, and even she has black friends. She's in the middle of nowhere - the closest airport is, like, three hours away - and she manages to connect with black people.

People who pigeonhole us for our queerness are not people I'm interested in knowing. They're so boring. How dare you be so boring? Grow up. Get some Ray-Bans.

We have to be sure we don't pigeonhole one group as though they're not part of the human family, as though there's a different set of rules for them. That would be a big mistake.

Once you're sort of pigeonholed into something, it's quite difficult to get out of it. I have no aversion to playing a gay character again, but it would definitely have to be the right role.

You get pigeonholed. You accept it or you fight it. I've accepted it.