Portia de Rossi

“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 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 to exude strength and intelligence.”

“I thought, I'm out in my life, that doesn't involve my public life.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

“The first time I was paparazzi'd, I thought I was being investigated for an insurance claim.”

“I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.”

“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.”

“If you've looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That's just the way it is.”

“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 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.”

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

“I was very sexual from a very young age.”

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

“When I was 15, I changed my name legally. I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. Everything just didn't fit, and I was trying to find things I could identify myself with, and it started with my name.”