Quotes About Acceptance

I think as a kid, you just want to be accepted by the people around you and largely I was.

By the time I'm wrinkly and old, I'll have kids and grandkids that I'm watching grow up. I'll be proud of what I've achieved in my life, and I'm not going to worry about my looks so much.

I didn't happen to be one of those gay kids who knew definitively by the time I was 13.

Once you start to try and calculate why you were cast and why you weren't, you get in trouble.

More than any other place, New York is where I felt I belonged. I prefer the Lower East Side to any place on the planet. I can be who I am there, and I couldn't do that anywhere I lived as a child. I never fit in when I lived in California, even though that's where my roots are.

I'm very 'one love.' I think that's the Californian girl in me.

Before I came out, the thought of someone calling me gay, even when I knew very well that I was, was petrifying.

I think people should be authentic and who they are. If that calls people to same-sex attraction and same-sex marriage, then they should be true to who they are, and I think that the world could benefit by more love.

I'm just Jeffree. Everyone calls me he/she/whatever they want to call me; I'm an alien.

There is nothing better than having people around you who make you feel special, make you feel calm, make you feel normal.

I am accepting my share of responsibility in what happens with Cambridge Analytica. I think that Facebook should also accept some share of responsibility as to what happened.

I can't hold a camera anymore.

If I put cameras on you every day, you're gonna be emotional and nothing will be perfect. You have to allow people to be people.

I don't like talking about which bits I like or don't like about my body. Everybody has something they're not happy with, and my only advice would be, 'Do something about it - exercise or eat less, but don't do nothing!' Find ways to enhance the good bits and camouflage the bad bits.

Camp is like this set-apart world where people go to try to change who they are, and yet change is really scary.

Plus-size girls are now doing beauty campaigns and hair campaigns and so many different things that for so long we fought for and wanted.

Ever since I was little, when I moved to Canada, Canada has been my home.

A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.

I always feel as though I'm not quite Canadian enough for everybody.

Canadians are so different and so lovely.

Oh, I think Canadians look like all sorts of people. That's the beauty of Canada.

Cancelled isn't a bad word because it happens everyday.

Not many people whose series gets cancelled get to come and put the period at the end of the sentence.

Lots of shows get cancelled, and then they never get to end their stories. It's just over.