Top 25 Portia de Rossi Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I saw Ellen and my knees were weak. It was amazing. And it was very hard for me to get her out of my mind after that. Then when I saw her that night, we started talking, and that’s that.

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. I was thinking, The people who need to know I’m gay know.

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

You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don’t think you are gay. It’s enough to drive you crazy.

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.

I was very sexual from a very young age.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I’ve had so many interviews where the last question is, Are you gay? I had to find very creative ways to say that I was gay, but that I wasn’t going to talk about it.

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

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.

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