Quotes About Acceptance

It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.

Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.

It took me a long time to come out as someone who doesn't like film. It's a bit like when people say they don't like books: you get that sharp intake of breath.

I am Chinese - it doesn't matter what other people say.

In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is.

When I am in a relationship, I give it my 100 per cent. But then, if it doesn't work, you cannot help it. You cannot move ahead with something which isn't working.

There's not a human being alive I won't talk to. There's a quite simple rule. If you like somebody more than you dislike them you can have a relationship. Once you accept you like 75 per cent but 25 per cent you find irritating for this or that reason, you just have to ignore that 25 per cent.

A homosexual man is a man 100 per cent. He does not need to dress homosexual.

Even now with the operation, with the damage done, my ankle probably is never going to be back to 100 per cent.

I've stopped caring how others are going to perceive me if I wear something that they don't like.

A lot of people don't perceive me as female or trans, they just see some rocker.

My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.

Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is.

I spent many years trying to fit in and do things the way I thought I was supposed to - trying to be perceived the way I thought people wanted to see me. I grew up in a very religious household and wasn't taught to feel comfortable or good about my sexuality, so it feels great to be able to say things the way I want to say them.

I never perceived being adopted as the glass being half-empty.

The black experience, which has nothing to do with my play 'Angels in America,' allowed me to understand the Mormon character. He was the character that couldn't come out to his mother. It allowed me to understand emotional and closeted behavior, because you're so acutely aware of how you're perceived.

Every woman is beautiful in her own way and I don't know why people have norms and ideas on how beauty is perceived.

We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.

Ninety percent of my clothes are women's.

All artists, no matter who they are, have always come into contact with criticism. No one's gonna like what you do 100 percent of the time.

I think - there's always going to be a percentage of people who maybe aren't as good as others.

Looks is a matter of perception. At Cannes, Europeans think I am good looking, while in India, I am not.

The lives we live are a bit of a straight-hair vs. curly-hair thing. We often want what we don't have. In reality, it's not about better or worse; it's just perception.

I think for far too long there was this perception, or I guess I would call it a misperception, that our locker rooms in the NFL are extremely homophobic, and that could not be further from the truth.