Quotes About Acceptance

Being in L.A. is great because there are so many weird people out there, so you can just blend in. I like that.

I don't want to be white. I don't want to be straight. I don't want to blend in.

I wanted to blend in 'cause I knew I was different.

I try, in my films, to normalize things that maybe 20 or 30 years ago a film would have been about. 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' needed its own film, but now blended families you see all the time.

Listen, I can't judge anybody for what blessings they have in their lives.

Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.

Blind don't mean you can't, you know, listen.

People who watch 'The Blind Side,' they're not going to have a chance to get to know me. People I'm close to, as long as they know me, know who I am, I don't have a problem with it.

We're often blinded by romance; we decide to not see things we don't want to see, and put up with behavior that we shouldn't put up with.

I may not be able to run around the block anymore, but I love my life.

I have learnt three things from Barry John which are applicable to life, too: Don't expect anything from another actor, one shouldn't judge, and one shouldn't block things.

I'm learning not to try to block everything.

I've been thinking about my life, my loss of friends, relationships, opportunities, money, my values. There's also the loss of relationship with my son and my daughter, who I've only met once. All that loss - I just got so good at blocking it out.

It's not always easy for a mainstream organization to accept what a blog is.

I follow a lot of the plus-sized bloggers.

I don't have any blonde friends.

I'm a real blonde.

If you look at 'Gnomeo & Juliet,' the movie's message essentially says it doesn't matter if you're a 'red' or a 'blue': at the end of the day, parents should love their children and want what's best for them.

There was a point - when I was a kid - where I said I wanted to be like Luke Skywalker, with blond hair and blue eyes. My mom right there told me to never be ashamed of who I am.

I was wearing blush when I was in third grade, so honestly, I just grew up with people who accepted me.

I'm first-generation American - my people came over on boats - and I think it's a shame to close the door on people who really need freedom.

The other girls were so comfortable with their bodies and it eventually rubbed off on me.

Many women don't appreciate their form because it doesn't look like what they see on the front cover of a magazine. They feel ashamed of their bodies.

We all learn how to use the bodies we're born with, or learn to use them in an adjusted state, whether those bodies are considered disabled or not.