Quotes About Acceptance

We are all human beings. We are not machines that everything you put in comes out perfect.

Trying to erase 53 years of being a macho aggressive guy to trying to be a woman, and this is greatest challenge of my life.

I ain't mad at anybody. I don't have any enemies.

Look at my life. I ain't got nothing to be mad about.

I don't get mad too much.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

I'm not mad when people talk bad about me; that's the way it is.

It's hard for me to hear about the things that I believed during my madness.

Getting mad only leads to madness.

I have never said no to a film. Except once, 20-25 years ago, when a producer from Madras wanted me to play Jeetendra's father.

I'm just going to go out there, and if people want to put me on the front of their magazine or whatever, that's fine. If they don't, that's fine as well. I'm just going to go out there and make my music.

Someone coming out as gay shouldn't be newsworthy; it shouldn't be warranting a magazine cover or anything like that, which I had as my story for coming out.

You can't magic yourself back 10 years.

I know the world isn't always beautiful or magical.

It's such a magnificent thing to be able to love someone and expect nothing from them.

We don't get any hate mail.

My main hope for myself is to be where I am.

Growing up, the main thing I was ashamed of was my voice. It is very effeminate.

When you're bi-racial, in the town I was in, in Maine, people kept asking, 'What are you?' It was like I wasn't even human.

I consider 'Dope' a part of the new mainstream.

I'll put it to you like this: You can only go as mainstream as people will let you go.

When you're making an adaptation, you have to make content for the fans; otherwise, you'll get something that won't even be accepted by the mainstream. You want to make something that the fans will approve and the mainstream will enjoy.

It's time for a trans hero in a mainstream comic.

A lot of gay-themed films are terrible. And mainstream audiences and the press aren't interested, understandably.