Quotes About Acceptance

I think it's important that the lived experiences and the point of view of L.G.B.T. folks be included in conversations that affect all of us.

Some are very hostile if mistakes are pointed out. I'm not. If I make a mistake, I make a mistake.

It... does... not... have... to... be... pointed out all the time. Like, 'Isn't it great that you're black, and you're a woman?' Isn't it great that the show's good? I would just love for it not to be a thing - for it just to be, like, super norm.

Over all life is what it is and regretting is a pointless thing.

We have to believe that we can hold different points of view without labeling each other bad feminists.

I don't believe in post-racial or post-gay or post-anything, but I do think within a certain group of friends, what matters less is the specificities of race and sexuality, and what matters more is the shared experience, shared language and shared cultural touch points.

I encourage people and their different points of view.

At first, I was scared that if I claimed I modeled, people would be like, 'What?'

Every woman has cellulite. I've never claimed to have a perfect body.

They're strange, the Aussies. Because if they like you, they say, 'Oh, he's an Aussie.' And I keep saying, 'I'm not, I'm from Preston.' There's nothing Australian about me. Don't start claiming me just because I've got a job over here.

The claims that I am gay don't faze me. I don't care if people think I'm gay; why would I care? I would be proud.

Everybody wants to have an empirical analysis of a relationship ending, but sometimes there's not that much clarity, and that's OK.

I went to an all-boys high school, and they accepted girls in only the two A.P. classes.

It's a classic love story: me and my hair. I have loved my hair. I have betrayed my hair. My hair and I have gone through this long, gut-wrenching relationship.

Don't classify me, read me.

I don't classify film people into old and new gen and so get along with all.

I think, even before social media, it was really hard to not look at other classmates and say, 'Well I wish I looked like her.' Or even to look at celebrities and wish that 'I looked like them.'

I didn't blend well with my classmates or my teachers.

I been trying to clean up my act with my children for a long time. And I pretty much got them all talking to me now. And they accept me as a humanoid again.

If the audience likes your work, if they like you, they don't think whether you are married or have children or not. I made that quite clear.

I'm clearly not Brad Pitt, and I'm never going to be Brad Pitt.

It's not that anything has changed about me, and, it's a cliche, but I think that as you get older, you learn to accept who you are, and you feel more comfortable in your own skin.

As cliche as it sounds, I've always told myself, 'Don't worry about the things you can't control. Control the things you can control.' That battle has beat up on me for years.

It sounds so cliched, but I've always been kind of different. I always liked being around weird kids.