Quotes About Acceptance

It's a wonderful side effect of what we're doing, to give someone the strength to come out of the closet to their family, or simply present themselves aesthetically in a way they feel happy with, whether or not their friends are going to be allowed to like them anymore.

I think as far as I've been able to understand from my friends that I went to college with and things like that is that it almost seems like Russian Roulette when you're coming out of the closet to your parents.

Coming out of the closet doesn't always mean liberation.

Players do not come out of the closet because they are afraid. We have to appear hard and strong, but we are afraid of what people will say about us. Of course, I have nothing against anyone. I respect everybody.

At some point, I came out to a lot of friends and some family, but then I went back in the closet when I started working as an actor in America.

We all have our own closets to come out of.

I don't want closure, I don't know what that means or why you would want it.

You want a storybook kind of closure with someone when they die, but I think that kind of thing is impossible.

I sort of don't believe in closure. In the sense that it doesn't make me feel better to think that something is over.

There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

I feel more comfortable with my clothes off than on!

I approach beauty the same way I approach clothing - I think people should do whatever to themselves to make them feel more comfortable in their skin.

No one should be gatekeeping clothing of any kind.

I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.

Balor Club is for everyone.

I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.

Most of the clubbing I did was gay clubbing.

On a personal level, I have no hard feelings towards the clubs that didn't want me.

I used to go to clubs and sing as myself but people weren't interested. And then I turned up as a woman and suddenly everyone was interested.

Whatever role the coaches decide for me and the team, I'm happy with that.

But once you get accepted and are trained under the best coaches, these things really help boost your confidence level.

I'm not going to coach again. I've done my coaching, and I think I can put that aside.

Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that there's nothing else you could have done.

I wouldn't change anything about myself. Not because I'm being cocky or anything, but because this is who I am, and I'm proud of who I am.