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Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress.
Portia de Rossi
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Portia de Rossi
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: January 31
Actress
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Horsham
Victoria
Australia
Portia Lee James DeGeneres
Amanda Lee Rogers
Portia DeGeneres
Portia Di Rossi
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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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Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.
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We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting.
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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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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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I had to find a relationship with someone who could simultaneously make me grow up and keep me forever young.
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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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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 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'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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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 don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.
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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 love body parts, especially hands.
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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.
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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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I'm not quite as limber, but for my peers and my age group, I'm still top notch!
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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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