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Shame weighs a lot more than flesh and bone.

Portia de Rossi

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Portia de Rossi
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: January 31
Actress
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Model
Television Actor
Writer
Horsham
Victoria
Australia
Portia Lee James DeGeneres
Amanda Lee Rogers
Portia DeGeneres
Portia Di Rossi
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I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.
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I 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, and it would add up to being enough.
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I 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 I didn't have to care anymore, but I began to think that it would be best just to skip the getting older part and just die.
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Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress.
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I have a very, very healthy relationship with food in that I eat whatever I want, whenever I want. I never restrict quantities or types of food.
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I'm not quite as limber, but for my peers and my age group, I'm still top notch!
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I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.
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I'm really attracted to strong women. Let me rephrase that, I'm really attracted to strong female characters.
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If 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.
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I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship it just obviously wasn't right for me.
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I love body parts, especially hands.
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Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself.
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You don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering.
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Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.
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In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me.
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My 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.
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Most 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.
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I would eat 300 calories a day - a lot of Jell-O and no-sugar everything, of course. I was doing Pilates, weight-training, circuit training over lunch I would run on a treadmill in my dressing room with a fan on my face so I wouldn't sweat my makeup off.
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When 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.
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You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don't think you are gay. It's enough to drive you crazy.
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