Quotes About Acceptance

My parents never said to me, 'Why don't you go and get a real profession?' And that really helped.

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

I've never felt stigmatized in my profession, nor have I allowed myself to. I don't feel either male or female, I feel I am just me, and I should be able to do whatever I like.

There were no examples of girls like myself becoming successful actresses. To be an actress in England was a serious, upper-middle class girl's profession. I just thought I would never be accepted unless I pretended to become somebody I wasn't.

I think it's ridiculous when people say, 'I don't date actors.' It's about the right person, and no matter what that right person does for a profession, they're still going to be the right person.

I'm not familiar with an unaccepting family. But in my profession, nothing can be foreign.

Every human being can relate to wanting their thoughts and their feelings to be accepted and rewarded and validated. So in that way, a stand-up is similar to almost any profession. It's very simply just someone who wants to be heard and live authentically and express themselves.

I guess it became easier for me to accept negative comments about my work, my profession - anything work-related because like I said I take them as positive criticisms.

Everyone has their own opinion about what should be on the radio and I think there's room for all different people.

You cannot force somebody to be a different person.

Everybody does drag for different reasons.

Being an actor, I feel I need to take up challenges and do different roles without thinking about whether the audience will accept me in those roles or not.

I'm appealing to people who want something different, but the world, on the whole, doesn't really embrace different things. Not on the whole.

Friends can have different dreams and do different things.

Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.

I've been told to wear different things, to look different, to lose weight, to look sexier, to wear more hair, to wear more makeup.

When I was 16 or 17 I knew I was gay, but knowing and accepting are two very different things.

Certain people like the way I make films, and others do not. I've come to terms with the fact that there's no other way I can make films. If I tried to do it in a different way, it would never work.

You get a little older, and you start understanding the world in a different way and what you don't have control over and what you do have control over.

The idea of a cure for autism is itself controversial. Some people with autism say they don't want to be cured, because autism gives them a different way of looking at the world.

Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing they can, just differently.

Every one of us is different in some way but for those of us who are more 'different,' we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing as they can... just differently.

Just because someone or something thinks differently than you do, it doesn't mean that it's not thinking.

We want people to know they shouldn't feel like social pariahs just because they want to dress differently or listen to rock n' roll.