Quotes About Acceptance

I'm nothing but a drunkard. Why do people expect me to be anything else?

You don't have to make yourself look like people expect you to look.

I don't have any expectations.

I don't have any expectations of anything.

A Dream Theater without me was never in the plan; I never expected that.

We live in such an image-heavy world that not seeing yourself in that landscape can really make it tough to feel human, to feel like you are part of the world.

When I got into languages, I needed to amass things to make myself more palatable or more acceptable as a human.

I like all languages equally.

Larger people do not get a lot to play in the theater.

I love Larry Kramer's advocacy, and I love him as a person, and I think young people need to see that story.

It is possible to take something beautiful and lasting out of the heart-wrenching experience of seeing the animal you love move inexorably toward death.

I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.

I'm a late bloomer, so I'm going to embrace it all.

Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh.

My sons are black, and my daughter is Latina.

Just because you are Latino does not mean you can't be global.

I don't think that 'Vida' is just for Latinos. I don't think 'One Day at a Time''s just for Latinos.

People used to always laugh at my hair, stuff like that.

I remember asking my mum when I was about 13, 'Why are my brothers and sister so much older than me?' And she just said, 'You were a mistake.' And I laughed.

Miranda's this girl that everyone's just laughed at online for years. I want people to empathize with her.

The 4-year-old me was getting laughed in school at for being too dark.

At various points in my own life, I have been laughed at scathingly for calling myself black.

I'm really good at laughing at myself.

I don't want to alienate anybody. If you're making a joke about men and men are laughing at it, it's a good joke.