Quotes About Acceptance

Scientology is one of the least homophobic religions. It's not very interested in the body at all.

Being raised by a Catholic father, a Protestant mother, and marrying the Muslim father of my three children, I encourage people to respect and at least try to understand different religions.

We need more diversity - we need more African-Americans on screen, Latinos, Asians, different religions. We have to be better about reflecting what our world looks like.

My parents were Christians - Catholics, but not in the close-minded sense. I remember my mother to be a very pious woman, but she was never against other religions.

In a way, I think science is the modern religion, and at times, I despise it as much as I despise other religions because it really will only accept stuff that fits its masculine ability to define the world.

If you come to a Logic show, you get all creeds, colors, religions, and sexual orientations.

I respect other religions and other cultures.

Why do human beings find it so hard to live and let live? Countries are messing with each other. Religions are messing with each other. Castes are messing with each other; people mess with each other.

I never felt I had anything to hide. I never felt being gay was anything to be ashamed of, so I never felt apologetic. I didn't have issues with it, didn't grow up with any religion, so I didn't have any religious, you know, issues to deal with as far as homosexuality is concerned. So, I accepted it very easily. For me, it wasn't that big a deal.

Reject racial or religious hate. Embrace moderate Islam.

I was always in new schools and had British parents, which was not the norm, and I think there was also... I'm not particularly religious, but I was born Jewish, and I always felt like the outsider because I wasn't Christian or Catholic.

Regardless of your religious belief, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or gender identity, there is no place in our communities for hate.

Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

They say the only thing that your parents don't teach you is how to live without them, but my grandma's religious beliefs allowed me to accept death even though it was so hard to live without her.

Everyone has the right to practice their religious beliefs in private but expect that people might publicly reject said beliefs.

I know how it feels to be hated because of my religious beliefs.

At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom.

If we really want to cherish religious freedom, people who want to believe that same-sex marriage should take place, they have a right to believe that, and people who want to believe it's inappropriate, we should not demonize those people - if we really believe in religious liberty.

Most people I know are not hard-core religious people. They are what I would call 'lightly religious.' So I don't buy the notion that we can't laugh about religion in America.

You take what God gives you and relish it.

Playing in front of a crowd is something you learn. You accept it and then you start to relish it.

Everyone wants to relive their life once again, but if I had the chance, I would do it in the exact same fashion.

You can't relive your life.

It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.