Portia De Rossi Quotes

Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.

I really never stopped thinking about Ellen, because I just haven't felt that kind of energy with anyone in my life.

Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing.

I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.

When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear.

You poor thing. I wish I could've been there to save you."
"You did save me. You save me every single day.

True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be.

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.

I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that.

Shame weighs a lot more than flesh and bone.

Normal isn't an adjective you wish to hear after putting that much effort into making sure it was spectacular.

I have a very, very healthy relationship with food in that I eat whatever I want, whenever I want. I never restrict quantities or types of food.

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.

I had a hell of a time convincing people I was gay - which was so annoying!

I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn't right for me.

I want to exude strength and intelligence.

Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.

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

I'm not quite as limber, but for my peers and my age group, I'm still top notch!

People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent.

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.

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.

There's a reason they call it a private life, I'd often say to interviewers. But there's a fine line between being private and being ashamed. The

I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that's where my heart was.

There's a fine line between being private and being ashamed.

You don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering.

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

And I somehow always felt less lonely when I was completely alone.

I highly recommend inviting the worst-case scenario into your life.

Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress.

The first time I was paparazzi'd, I thought I was being investigated for an insurance claim.

Women in the postfeminist era, while supposedly strong and commanding and equal to men in every sense, looked weaker and smaller than ever before.

We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting.

I never, ever, restrict food, and I will never go on a diet ever again.

I was very sexual from a very young age.

Oh, I don't have any fans. Personally? I don't have any.

It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.

I thought, I'm out in my life, that doesn't involve my public life.

Effortlessness is an attractive thing. And it takes a lot of effort to achieve it.

In a way, I loved him. But I loved the roles that we both played a lot more. I had assigned him the role of my protector.

My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me.

I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.

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.

Even if I'm hormonal and I feel like I've got a couple pounds of water weight, I will never starve myself, I will never, ever go on a diet.

If I was 14 and knew some gay people, I wouldn't nearly have had the struggle I had. Our world is definitely changing.

Every animal has its own intelligence and sensitivities. They're all lovely, worthwhile, and deserving of our respect.

I ran into Ellen at a photo shoot. She took my breath away. That had never happened to me in my life.

You treat me better than I've ever treated myself.

I had to find a relationship with someone who could simultaneously make me grow up and keep me forever young.

I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.

I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school-and I'm still deferred.

I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality.