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Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.

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
Yearning
Cannot
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Restriction

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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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I 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 taught me to be truthful. She taught me to be free. I began to live my life in love and complete acceptance. For the first time I had truly accepted myself.
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I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school - and I'm still deferred.
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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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At my high school graduation, I graduated from home school, so it was pregnant teens and gang members. But, when I got on stage, there were kids in the background who all screamed, Marry me!, very loud.
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Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself.
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I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.
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I 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.
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When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.
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Thanks so much, everybody, for making gay marriage legal, thank you for everything you've done-I'm just going to walk through that door
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Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress.
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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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I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that.
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And I somehow always felt less lonely when I was completely alone.
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I 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.
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My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me.
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We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting.
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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 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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If I was 14 and knew some gay people, I wouldn't nearly have had the struggle I had. Our world is definitely changing.
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