Quotes About Acceptance

I want to age with some dignity.

I'll continue working to ensure that everyone - regardless of their background - is treated with the dignity and respect that they deserve.

I think everyone deserves dignity.

What we need to do is understand that we have to love each other, that we have to see each other have worth and dignity and value.

If it is written for me to lose, I'll lose with dignity and give credit.

For me, the dilemma is I love Bristol, but you can only do that for so long and not get it back. It's been something that's been hard for me to accept. It breaks my heart.

Every WP member can bring in a member of any race and religion. I think it's probably healthy we do it that way rather than play up the racial dimension too much.

You start comparing people, and ultimately, somebody feels diminished.

I took one thing to heart that I heard from Sidney Poitier in 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.' And it resonated so much with me. He says: 'Dad, you always looked at yourself as a black man. I look at myself as a man.'

I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction.

I had a casting director tell me to be blacker.

There was always a conscious effort on my part to do different cinema. It's taken time for the directors to accept me.

Sexuality, desirability has nothing to do with body type. It has to do with how you feel from within. I was at my fattest best in 'The Dirty Picture,' and I was called the most desirable. So there you go. I am quite well-endowed, so I have no complaints.

I have so many other things going on that if 'A Dirty Shame' is my last movie, that's OK.

I'm comfortable airing my laundry. I don't think one thing's dirty or clean. It's just what I wear.

Yeah, you can disagree with someone and still be cool - that's a thing!

I disagree with the idea that everything happens for a reason.

When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear.

I'm disappointed about how my career ended.

When I came to New York for the draft in '89, they told me I should be like 10 and 15, and it didn't happen. So I was very disappointed, like, nobody wants me.

Me and my dad are friends. We're cool. I'll never be disappointed again, because I don't expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that's how we get along.

You're always disappointed when you lose a game.

As I got older, I gave myself the space to be human and to have a minute and be disappointed and feel whatever I'm feeling.

It is always disappointing to obviously concede.