Portia de Rossi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I have selective hearing.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
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Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work.
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I don't mean to be funny.
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Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would destroy their morals, TV would wreck their eyesight, video games would make them violent.
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Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.
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I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.
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The actual producing, mixing, and mastering is hard work, harder than what I do.
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When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.
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I'm comfortable and confident about the future.
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My body can't put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore - my body is just not on the table that way anymore.
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The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us.
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Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play Now I need a place to hide away. Oh, I believe in yesterday.
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I don't usually comment on columnists' ideas of what I'm thinking. That's a dangerous game to get into.
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Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.
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My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me.
