Quotes About Acceptance

Be yourself. And if you're not accepted by your family, there will be people who will accept you.

I think the best thing your parents can do for you is to let you be yourself.

It's good to have people in your life around whom you can be yourself.

I know intimately the struggle of trying to live your life and be yourself while feeling the pressure of an entire community on your shoulders.

Anybody is a beach body is what I love to say.

I hope that any gay kids see me as beacon of light, not just in sport but in general.

I have this saying: They either want The Bean or they don't want The Bean. I just am my own thing. It works or it doesn't work.

It just became too much to bear... the pressure of trying to fit into a world that perhaps wasn't really set up for people like myself.

If bad things are going to be said about me, I have to bear that. If I don't understand that it's part of being in show business, then I'd better go work in a bank.

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

I don't think I'll ever be able to grow a beard.

It's not that I think every late 19th-century man with a beard who saw something shimmering in front of him was actually seeing his dead aunty. What I'm saying is: lighten up. This isn't weird stuff. It's interesting.

If I can play, and change the mind of one person about being a Muslim player and having a beard, then I'll feel as if I've done my job.

You cannot hate the hate out of a person. You cannot beat the hate out of a person. But you can love it out of a person.

I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do, and you don't need to beat yourself up about it.

There's no use beating yourself up about what you can't change.

If you're not a beautiful person, you can't do anything about it.

I'm not a beautiful person and I never have been.

The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.

It's a beautiful thing at 60 to know who you are.

The beautiful thing about this country is that I can be a Christian and feel free to do so. Or somebody cannot be a Christian and do whatever that entails. Or somebody can be a Christian and still be gay, and I support it.

Beauty is not everything!

There is beauty in everything.

I wanted to have lots of characters in 'Bebop' without white skin, and if people weren't used to that, well, maybe it would even make them think a little bit about it.