Quotes by Portia de Rossi

Life can take so many twists and turns. You can’t ever count yourself out. Even if you’re really afraid at some point, you can’t think that there’s no room for you to grow and do something good with your life.

I dont know where this pressure came from. I cant blame my parents because it has always felt internal. Like any other parent, my mother celebrated the A grades and the less-than-A grades she felt there was no need to tell anybody about. But not acknowledging the effort that ended in a less than perfect result impacted me as a child. If I didnt win, then we wouldnt tell anyone that I had even competed to save us the embarrassment of acknowledging that someone else was better. Keeping the secret made me think that losing was something to be ashamed of, and that unless I was sure I was going to be the champion there was no point in trying. And there was certainly no point to just having fun.

Playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationships collapse. Noone can be any one thing all the time.

I wondered if thats what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a place of peace. I had always wanted to get old so I didnt have to care anymore, but I began to think that it would be best just to skip the getting older part and just die.

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.

Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself.

When it’s quiet in my head like this, that’s when the voice doesn’t need to tell me how pathetic I am. I know it in the deepest part of me. When it’s quiet like this, that’s when I truly hate myself.

You treat me better than Ive ever treated myself.

Writing to her, I was no longer lonely... I could tolerate anything as long as I had a notepad and a pen and could pour my heart out to her in these letters.

And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating. Ordered eating is the practice of eating when you are hungry and ceasing to eat when your brain sends the signal that your stomach is full. ... All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering. If you can accept your natural body weight and not force it to beneath your bodys natural, healthy weight, then you can live your life free of dieting, of restriction, of feeling guilty every time you eat a slice of your kids birthday cake.

I want to exude strength and intelligence.

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

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

The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didnt really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know Im gay know.

You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I dont think you are gay. Its enough to drive you crazy.

I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think its beautiful. Im such a romantic, and I always have been.

“I dont know where this pressure came from. I cant blame my parents because it has always felt internal. Like any other parent, my mother celebrated the A grades and the less-than-A grades she felt there was no need to tell anybody about. But not acknowledging the effort that ended in a less than perfect result impacted me as a child. If I didnt win, then we wouldnt tell anyone that I had even competed to save us the embarrassment of acknowledging that someone else was better. Keeping the secret made me think that losing was something to be ashamed of, and that unless I was sure I was going to be the champion there was no point in trying. And there was certainly no point to just having fun.”