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People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent.
Portia de Rossi
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Portia de Rossi
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: January 31
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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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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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I love to work. I really enjoy getting up really early and driving downtown. I just really love the process of acting and being on a series.
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The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another diet or neglect to use the gym membership we could barely afford.
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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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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 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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We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting.
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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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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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I'm really attracted to strong women. Let me rephrase that, I'm really attracted to strong female characters.
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I love body parts, especially hands.
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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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Thanks so much, everybody, for making gay marriage legal, thank you for everything you've done-I'm just going to walk through that door
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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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Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress.
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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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I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been.
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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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