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We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting.
Portia de Rossi
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Portia de Rossi
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: January 31
Actress
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Film Actor
Model
Television Actor
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Horsham
Victoria
Australia
Portia Lee James DeGeneres
Amanda Lee Rogers
Portia DeGeneres
Portia Di Rossi
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Inspire
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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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Everyone 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.
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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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I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.
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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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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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True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else it's about being better than you used to be.
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Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television 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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People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent.
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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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And I somehow always felt less lonely when I was completely alone.
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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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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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My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me.
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I love body parts, especially hands.
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I had to find a relationship with someone who could simultaneously make me grow up and keep me forever young.
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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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