Careers Quote by Portia de Rossi

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

Portia de Rossi

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings)

Careers Continuing Example Gay Life Rich Rich life

More by Portia de Rossi

In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack…

Portia de Rossi

Image

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

Portia de Rossi

Image

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…

Portia de Rossi

Image

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

Portia de Rossi

Image

I began to see myself as someone who can help others understand diversity rather than feeling like a social outcast. Ellen taught me to…

Portia de Rossi

Image

The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it.…

Portia de Rossi

Image

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;…

Portia de Rossi

Image

The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we…

Portia de Rossi

Image

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

Portia de Rossi

Image

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,…

Portia de Rossi

Image

Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.

Portia de Rossi

Image

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…

Portia de Rossi

Image

Explore all 93 Portia de Rossi quotes

More Careers quotes

It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small…

Norman Vincent Peale

Image

I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my…

Jane Powell

Image

The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against…

Nils Frahm

Image

I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a great career out of it, and they found a way to do it and still be cool guys, so that's kind of where I want to be.

Kenny Wormald

I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it up in my persona. I felt like I wouldn't be able to do stand-up for a career if I was needy. I didn't want to be complaining or whining onstage. I wanted to be cool and…

Anthony Jeselnik

The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before…

Gerry Cooney

Image

The truth is I've just never had any kind of plan at all for my career, which is probably not a very flattering thing to admit. I don't know that I'd ever planned to be in this situation. I'm still just an idiot, really really stupid. It's not like I'm now a genius because this has happened. I just got…

Ty Burrell

I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen.

Chord Overstreet

Image

My non-career. My excuse for a career? Honestly, I never think about the word 'career.' I've had managers, the minute they say it to…

Tom Verlaine

Image

Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.

Omari Hardwick

Image

The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new thought; his studies, his reading, his professors, his associates, all were combined to keep from him any results of observation or reflection save those prescribed: probably, of all means for stifling healthy and helpful thought, a theological seminary,…

Andrew Dickson White