Quotes About Acceptance

Anything that is non-violent is OK with me.

I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.

As long as you know, within yourself, that you're no better than anyone else out there, you're OK.

It's OK to have a little bit of curve.

And I'm OK being judged as an actor.

I am certainly not perfect. I don't think you should try to be perfect for anyone. When you come to terms with that, then you're OK.

If by chance people would still offer me roles, I'd still like to do them. But if not, that's OK.

There's no question that I'm African-American. OK? I'm a black man. We're not going to escape that.

I'm trying to tell kids if they are gay, it's OK to be gay. I've tried to tell families if they have a gay family member to accept them and love them as they always have.

Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.

My nightmare is that I don't want to be OK.

Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

I get told a lot that I'm kind of carving my own path. That there are not many actors who are out and are able to play straight and gay, and everyone's OK with it.

With any entertainment business, you sort of have to be OK with just going with it. I've learned very much to just go with the flow and see what happens with my life, and what happens happens.

We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.

You need to stop looking outside and look inside - and it's such a good feeling. A feeling of love and that everything is going to be OK, and all you have to do is nothing.

I think losing my father was OK in the sense that it's cool for me not to have a father; it's normal. I'm supposed to bury my father. But what I didn't realize was that my father was my best friend, and that still gets me... that still irritates me a lot.

I am not married anymore. I hate marriage... but it's okay now.

It's okay', you know? It's okay to be you. It's okay to just not be okay. It's okay to not be okay.

When it's all said and done, I am secure enough with my manhood to say to the world, 'I am a male actor, and its okay for me to play a gay man.'

It's okay if someone is disgusted or offended by my performance. It's just a performance.

There is something missing in Asian America. They're missing people to tell them, 'It's okay to be who you are - you belong. Just be unapologetically you; you're not less than anybody else.'

It's okay to be a freak.

To each his own. You like what you like. If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a little extra meat on there. If you like them thin-boned, then that's okay, too.