Quote

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.

Portia de Rossi

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Home
Thing
Bushes
Paparazzi
Publicly
Hiding
Respond
Outside
Control

More quotes by Portia de Rossi

Image
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.
Portia de Rossi
Image
I was very sexual from a very young age.
Portia de Rossi
Image
I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.
Portia de Rossi
Image
People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent.
Portia de Rossi
Image
We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting.
Portia de Rossi
Image
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.
Portia de Rossi
Image
If I was 14 and knew some gay people, I wouldn't nearly have had the struggle I had. Our world is definitely changing.
Portia de Rossi
Image
I highly recommend inviting the worst-case scenario into your life.
Portia de Rossi
Image
I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.
Portia de Rossi
Image
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.
Portia de Rossi
Image
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.
Portia de Rossi
Image
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.
Portia de Rossi
Image
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.
Portia de Rossi
Image
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.
Portia de Rossi
Image
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.
Portia de Rossi
Image
I'm not quite as limber, but for my peers and my age group, I'm still top notch!
Portia de Rossi
Image
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.
Portia de Rossi
Image
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.
Portia de Rossi
Image
And I somehow always felt less lonely when I was completely alone.
Portia de Rossi
Image
You don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering.
Portia de Rossi