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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
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Reality TV now doesn't feel reality TV when it started. The line between reality and fiction is blurred. So many of these people are phony or shallow, in their own right. If you've ever watched any of The Real Housewives, or those types of shows, they're all performing. Even though they're real people, they're performing.
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I was very sexual from a very young age.
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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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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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Life 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 something good with your life.
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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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I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school - and I'm still deferred.
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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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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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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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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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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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True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else it's about being better than you used to be.
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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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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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Normal isn't an adjective you wish to hear after putting that much effort into making sure it was spectacular.
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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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I'm not quite as limber, but for my peers and my age group, I'm still top notch!
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