Quotes About Acceptance

I think American audiences are open to people with accents and different nationalities being on the screen.

Whatever script comes to me, I like everything.

We'd like to prearrange our life on all levels. We'd prefer it to be scripted. But it's not.

I'm not one of those actresses that asks what's going to happen. I've never been. I just take the scripts, and I see what's given to me, and I go with it that way.

I'm never going to search for anyone's acceptance. I'm just going to be me, and people are eventually going to have to accept it.

When you're young and search your name on Twitter to see what everyone is saying about you, which everyone does when you're young... it was one of those things I had to get on with.

My entire life, I've been searching for acceptance.

I didn't give myself enough love, so I was searching for it in other places, and it was a never ending struggle.

Hope and fear cannot alter the season.

You don't necessarily have to watch something for 14 seasons. It's not necessarily the way everything's supposed to be.

Life is about seasons, and I think you got to know the seasons.

I never had any hang-ups about playing a secondary role.

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

When I was on 'Doubt' on CBS, there was a 60-second scene, but in that 60 seconds, people were so affected because it was trans women in a very normalized situation.

For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.

You can't take yourself too seriously. You have to be secure and make fun of yourself.

So much of politics is about people's relationships with themselves. You do better if you make people feel secure in who they are.

I started feeling secure in every way once I began to accept myself the way I was. Whether that was emotional, financial or professional security, all of it came and embraced me because I embraced myself.

Go out and face the world secure in the knowledge that everybody else thinks they are better looking than they are as well.

I don't feel secure as an actor. I want to do more films and get accepted by masses.

It's time to get past our racial differences. We owe it to our children to help them keep their clean start.

Life does not owe me a shred.

There's this belief sometimes from people who haven't lived the trans experience that's just like, 'You should tell everyone. You owe it to them.' But the truth is, you don't know how people are going to respond. And many people don't even have the language to talk about what their trans experience is, or what it could be.

I've learned that you don't want to expect anything or feel that you're owed anything.