Quotes About Acceptance

I'm quite open and proud enough to listen to anything really. Be it home, abroad, Premier League, Championships or below that. It's not a worry. I've been in the game long enough so I know how to pitch myself in comfortably anywhere.

I was kicked out of my own house and had my own drag mother, you know, a house mother. Things with my family are great now - my mom and dad were at the premiere - but they had kicked me out.

From the very beginning, I think it's been quite clear that there's no way I could possibly say that trans women are not women. It's the sort of thing to me that's obvious, so I start from that obvious premise.

It's not hard to get people to take a premise and accept it.

The idea of what forms your identity and whether you fit in as one thing or another is something that we all think about, and something that's definitely been a preoccupation of mine.

Imagining living in a universe without purpose may prepare us to better face reality head on. I cannot see that this is such a bad thing.

It doesn't matter if you are number one or number two. You have to prepare for everything.

I believe that before anybody makes the journey to the other side, we have to know on a soul level that we are leaving, whether it's an accident or illness, and we prepare ourselves to a certain degree that we won't be there in the future.

I don't prepare for wearing a bikini; I always have a bit of a tummy.

I have no control of life. I have to prepare myself for any situation.

I used to hear other boxers talk about levels and it used to frustrate me. But now I understand: sometimes it doesn't matter how much you prepare, there are just people you can't beat.

One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.

You have to accept that when you don't get the part, it's to do with all sorts of reasons completely beyond your control, unless you know it's because you weren't prepared.

You are never really prepared for criticism.

My expectations are not in any future event. I would rather just be prepared for whatever might take place.

There are more things to worry about in the world than a messed-up audition. It's out of your hands. So often, it's not down to acting abilities but something an actor has no control over. So go in, be prepared, do your job, and go and enjoy the rest of your day.

I'm not looking for a boyfriend - but if I was, he'd have to be prepared to carry me around everywhere.

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

All you can do is trust, be open and prepared, and you have to be flexible, as much as possible.

I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them.

Suddenly I had a call one day saying they'd like me to come to the office to see Jean-Luc Godard. 'He is preparing a film called 'Breathless.' Jean would like to see you.' I said yes. I thought he was pretty strange, because at that time nobody was wearing those kind of glasses where you couldn't see the eyes.

It's not a prerequisite for an actor to be obsessed about his looks. I know there are people who don't look in the mirror at all, and I'm getting there.

An open mind is prerequisite to an open heart.

I just like being me, and whether the people love me or hate me, that's their own prerogative.