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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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Model
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Horsham
Victoria
Australia
Portia Lee James DeGeneres
Amanda Lee Rogers
Portia DeGeneres
Portia Di Rossi
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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'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.
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The 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 objectivism. It’s how we make rules and why we obey them.
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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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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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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 had to find a relationship with someone who could simultaneously make me grow up and keep me forever young.
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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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Shame weighs a lot more than flesh and bone.
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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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Women in the postfeminist era, while supposedly strong and commanding and equal to men in every sense, looked weaker and smaller than ever before.
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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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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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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 was very sexual from a very young age.
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Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.
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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 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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