Quotes About Acceptance

The only time it gets weird is which bathroom do I go into sometimes.

I grew up looking for myself onscreen and never could find myself. And I believe that I am supposed to be Toula to show people that it's O.K. to be different.

When we have trans actors play trans characters, people can look onscreen and say, 'OK, this is what trans is.'

I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good.

If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.

There's something about being onstage, man. No matter what age I am or where I'm going, theater will constantly be the thing that accepts me and embraces me.

I think it's going to be the most difficult thing to do, to leave the stage. But if you have no lucidity about it, it's even worse because you don't see the negative side of you still being onstage.

That's part of what made me interested in theater as a kid. It made it acceptable to be a man for an hour onstage.

Illness transforms the things you most fear into the things you crave and would hold onto if you could.

You have to be very flexible and understand as a director, especially as a writer/director, that you cannot hang onto stuff really hard. You have to be ready to accept those happy accidents and to anticipate that they are going to happen and capitalize on them.

I don't force anything onto other people, because you'll never get a good satanist out of forcing somebody to be one.

One cannot afford to be nostalgic about the past and cling onto it.

It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling.

Many of us come into the world with a clenched fist, but we all leave with an open hand.

I think drag helps move us in the direction of loosening up the man/woman binary. The idea that you're one, or the other, it's false. The more that as a society we become a little looser, more open to laugh about gender, that's the direction the world needs to go in.

Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.

Being Asian in this business is something you have to consider, because sometimes people aren't as open. They'll say, I can't see you with a Caucasian person.

We should all just do what makes us happy and be open.

I've always been really open about my sexuality and who I am. I never thought a big coming out was necessary.

I'm really open to everything.

We willing to work with anybody that wants to work with us. It's open arms. It ain't no hating on no situation.

Game's always been open arms with me.

Atlanta has accepted me with open arms. Baltimore is always my first home but being able to come here is special.

I loved Hackney because they embraced me really, like with open arms.