Quotes About Acceptance

New Orleans just wasn't anything for me. I didn't fit in. I just couldn't get adjusted.

When I think back, the neighbors were always sayin', 'Oh, that poor Julie, that poor orphan.' I loved it. The Italians would invite me in for dinner - it was an Italian neighborhood mostly. Oh, I loved it.

I've learned to not have expectations. I think the first movie I did, I was like, 'Oh my God, I'm going to win an Oscar!' You can't do that, you're going to let yourself down.

Often times I don't watch the Oscars because I say this isn't for me.

Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.

Here in Brazil, homophobia is everywhere. If Brazil looked up to good things that other countries do, it would become a better place. I'm not talking about homosexuals only, but for everything else.

I didn't know what gay was. There was no such thing when I was growing up. I knew I had crushes on boys, but I didn't think there was anything wrong with that until I started to hear about it from the other kids in school.

Honestly, I had no idea I was different from other kids until I started kindergarten. To my family, I was just Lizzie.

There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.

Even from the age of about 6 years old, I was kind of made to feel different by other kids - you know, I was a quite pretty kid, and I got called 'girl' a lot, and 'woman' and all of that. And school is really not a place to be different.

At school, I could talk about what other kids were talking about. Maybe I wouldn't seem so strange if I connected with them on the level they were used to.

I grew up with a special-needs brother, and the separation from other kids is so extreme. We've got to break down those barriers.

People would call me Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan or whatever popular martial artist there was at that time. I also remember the other kids at the lunch table freaking out when I brought in Korean food.

It's important for kids to know they can be themselves, and that it's OK to have dreams and goals they love and that may not be cool or popular to other kids.

We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.

I've bleached my brows and things like that, but otherwise, I just let them be.

If people love what I do, that's fantastic. And there's always going to be people who don't, and if I focus on that, then it'll destroy me. I have to just worry about my own opinion and the opinions of the people I'm working with and people who are close to me. Otherwise, it'll drive me crazy.

I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept.

I don't agree with those in our community who think that, as gay people, we are special and should therefore keep ourselves isolated from certain straight-associated thinking or conventions.

I believe much of our lives is about guilt management.