Quotes by Portia de Rossi

About Portia de Rossi:

Portia Lee James DeGeneres is an Australian-American actress, model and philanthropist, known for her roles as lawyer Nelle Porter on the television series Ally McBeal and Lindsay Fünke on the sitcom Arrested Development. She also portrayed Veronica Palmer on the ABC sitcom Better Off Ted and Olivia Lord on Nip/Tuck. She is married to American stand-up comedian, television host and actress Ellen DeGeneres. She currently stars on Scandal as Elizabeth North.
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I was very sexual from a very young age.

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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.

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I wondered if that's 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 didn't have to care anymore, but I began to think that it would be b...

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I don't know where this pressure came from. I can't 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 ac...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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 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.

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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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I want to exude strength and intelligence.

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NamePortia de Rossi
  • DescriptionAustralian-American actress
  • AliasesPortia Lee James DeGeneres; Amanda Lee Rogers; Portia DeGeneres
  • BornJanuary 31, 1973
  • CountryAustralia; United States Of America
  • ProfessionTelevision Actor; Actor; Writer; Autobiographer