Quotes About Acceptance

I can go to all these cool places around the world, but when we land at YYZ, I'm like, 'Yes! It's flat. It's concrete. I'm okay with this; my people are here.'

I haven't always felt it was okay to read romance novels. When I was younger, it embarrassed me to be seen with my books, but I've come out of the closet.

Some people are meant to be bigger, and that's okay. Because if everybody was built the same, it would be a little boring. We enjoy the differences in each other, and I think that's what makes all of us beautiful.

It's okay to be misunderstood - as long as you're not misunderstood by your consumers.

We all want love and to feel safe, wanted, cared for, to like our selves, our bodies, to have families and feel okay in the world.

The way I saw the world as a child was not wrong. And it's okay to see the world that way. If it doesn't hurt anybody.

You have to separate the negative into two categories - half of it is sensible, constructive things that has made us better. But half of the negative online is negative for the sake of being negative, and it's important for us to remember it's okay they don't like us, and sometimes there's no point in engaging in that.

I was obsessed with not knowing what happened after you were dead. And I sat or kneeled for a whole day with my head against the wall, trying to figure it out. But I couldn't, and I just said, 'Okay.' And then it was nothingness.

I think Barack Obama was born into a home not just to a white woman and white grandparents, but a white woman and white grandparents who shockingly told him it was okay that he was black and that he should not be ashamed of it and that he should, in fact, be proud of it.

It's true that my mom loved it when I played Joanie Cunningham in the musical 'Happy Days,' but I think she finally realized I am never going to do 'Oklahoma!'

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

I'm not getting old, I'm getting dead.

The more the years go by, the more difficult it gets. I'm getting old.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

I've gotten crankier in my old age.

I have no desire to be a centenarian. I think 90 is a great time. You've had a good innings. You have to deal with the cards that have been dealt, of course, but I don't think very old age, if you haven't got your marbles, can be very nice.

I softened in my old age.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

For me, old age is just something that happens.

I'm getting older and mellower in my old age.

I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.

My old man used to say that I would argue the hind leg of a donkey. If I didn't agree with something, I wasn't prepared to accept it.

I played old men back in drama school. It's just now that I'm drawing level with the age of the characters I play, but I'm fine with that, and I've certainly never envied people who became hugely famous when they were young.