Quotes About Acceptance

The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging.

If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion.

I would love to be on a show where I'm allowed to play a character that you're not suspicious of, from the get-go, and who's someone that you can just relax with, take in and like, right off the bat.

It makes me sad that our kids are growing up in a country where they are American but, in a sense, have to prove it. They can't just be who they are like everyone else. Who they are is something suspicious, something scary, something misunderstood.

Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological and generally suspicious of people who are.

I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years.

We all know we're going to die one day, but who wants to think about it? What's sustainable is joy, pleasure and freedom.

If you want to build a sustainable culture, you have to have a strong philosophy and then let people do with it what they will and be OK with that.

You recognize the truth because sometimes it's hard to swallow, but if you hold it in your mouth, refusing to eat it, you are going to choke.

I just have to accept that I won't ever be Al Green, which is a hard pill to swallow.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

If people are offering you help, swallow your pride and accept it because people who care about you want to help you.

I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.

Normally, a loss, it's hard to swallow, but you get over it sooner or later.

One has to swallow a bitter pill to get cured.

Mother' is something people can't swallow. It was about me visualising my connection with my mother, my journey through her belly, and it's 60 minutes long - it was never going to be understood by the masses.

I've been told I looked like I swallowed an elephant or a pig, whichever was more fitting that day.

If I had stayed there, swallowed my pride, been able to save Orlando all over again, which is what they were trying to get me to do there, I'd be O.K. now.

People know what 'Hedwig' is now, and that's wonderful. It's not the same as being swamped for being on 'The Big Bang Theory,' but it's much more comfortable.

If you look back at my marathons and ask whether I would swap one of them for my one balls-up, of course I would. But you can't choose. You have to make the best of it on the day.

In an ideal world, we would be able to just swap characters' genders around because I don't ever wake up in the morning and think to myself, 'Oh I am such a woman today,' because that is just so ridiculous.

I swear there are things you can do to work on problem areas without having to think about plastic surgery.