Portia de RossiI did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes. www.imdb.c… ▶373Time
Portia de RossiWhen I watched Ellen come out in '97, my jaw was on the floor. I thought, There are some people who break the doors down, hold them open, and some people who walk right through. <… ▶363HumanityThought
Portia de RossiI love being able to wear dresses and clothes that make me feel feminine and beautiful, and I love the fact that I don't have to all the time; I can wear a tank and jeans. ✨… ▶342LoveTimeTruth
Portia de RossiI thought that if I accomplished enough, that somehow I would be let off the hook in the future. Like I didn’t have to keep striving and achieving because I had done that already,… ▶375HopeReadingThought
Portia de RossiThe diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we … ▶364DeathTime
Portia de RossiI try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that. ✨ Biography / Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.321Time
Portia de RossiI don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.321Humanity
Portia de RossiIf I was 14 and knew some gay people, I wouldn't nearly have had the struggle I had. Our world is definitely changing. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.333Humanity
Portia de RossiEvery animal has its own intelligence and sensitivities. They're all lovely, worthwhile, and deserving of our respect.323Love
Portia de RossiI began to see myself as someone who can help others understand diversity rather than feeling like a social outcast. Ellen taught me to not care about other people's opinions. She… ▶368HumanityLifeLove
Portia de RossiI have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.… ▶292LoveThought
Portia de RossiI love to work. I really enjoy getting up really early and driving downtown. I just really love the process of acting and being on a series. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes. www… ▶347Love
Portia de RossiMy sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.314Death
Portia de RossiAnd I somehow always felt less lonely when I was completely alone. ✨ Portia de Rossi (2011). Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain, p.246, Simon and Schuster336Reflection
Portia de RossiI didn't understand that playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationship's collapse. No one can be any one thing all the time. ✨ Port… ▶348Time
Portia de RossiI stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school - and I'm still deferred. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.294LovePolitics
Portia de RossiYou don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering. ✨ Portia de Rossi (2010). Unbearable Lightness: A Story … ▶272DeathHumanity
Portia de RossiI wondered if that's what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a place of peace. I had always wanted to get old so… ▶316DeathThoughtTruth
Portia de RossiIf your self-esteem really does depend on how you look you're always going to be insecure. There's no way you can get around it because you are going to age. Even if you get that … ▶3310Love
Portia de RossiEveryone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into. ✨ Biography/… ▶241ThoughtTime
Portia de RossiMost important, in order to find real happiness, you must learn to love yourself for the totality of who you are and not just what you look like. ✨ Portia de Rossi (2010). U… ▶3310Love
Portia de RossiLife can take so many twists and turns. You can’t ever count yourself out. Even if you’re really afraid at some point, you can’t think that there’s no room for you to grow and do … ▶3210LifeThought
Portia de RossiI highly recommend inviting the worst-case scenario into your life. ✨ Portia de Rossi (2010). Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain, p.304, Simon and Schuster319Life
Portia de RossiI married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn't right for me. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.297Humanity
Portia de RossiIf you've looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That's just the way it is… ▶243Love
Portia de RossiMy feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, and I just figured I'd deal with the other stuff later. ✨ Biography/Persona… ▶254Reading
Portia de RossiWhen it’s quiet in my head like this, that’s when the voice doesn’t need to tell me how pathetic I am. I know it in the deepest part of me. When it’s quiet like this, that’s when … ▶298Humor
Portia de RossiThe theory of objectivism claims that there are certain things that most people in society can agree upon. A model is pretty. A lawyer is smart. Our society is based upon objectiv… ▶309HumanityPolitics
Portia de RossiI justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality. ✨ Biography / Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.243Reflection
Portia de RossiI knew I wasn't attractive, and I was very happy about that. I didn't want to be attractive. I didn't want to attract. As long as no one wanted to be let in, I didn't have to shut… ▶255Sadness