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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.
Portia de Rossi
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Portia de Rossi
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: January 31
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Horsham
Victoria
Australia
Portia Lee James DeGeneres
Amanda Lee Rogers
Portia DeGeneres
Portia Di Rossi
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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 stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school - and I'm still deferred.
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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 was very sexual from a very young age.
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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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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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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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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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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 try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that.
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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'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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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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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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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'm not quite as limber, but for my peers and my age group, I'm still top notch!
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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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My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me.
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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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