Top 100 Quotes About Portia
#1. Are you really an orphan?
Yes, I am, said Portia a shade shortly. Are you?
No, not at present, but I suppose it's a thing one is bound to be.
Elizabeth Bowen
#2. Time to say thank you and farewell! trills Effie at my elbow. It's one of those moments when I just love her compulsive punctuality. We collect Cinna and Portia, and she escorts us around to say good-bye to important people, then herds us to the door.
Suzanne Collins
#3. I will make arrangements for you and Portia to return to London the following day. I will be closing up the house. I am leaving England for a while." "For how long?" I asked him, determined to keep my composure. "Until I am quite recovered from you," he said evenly. "When will you return?" "Never.
Deanna Raybourn
#4. Portia remembered her interview in the small office upstairs ... in which she had been so shy, so terrified about not being good enough, not getting this thing, this chance, which she had only just discovered she wanted very badly.
Jean Hanff Korelitz
#5. After making my stage debut aged nine as Macduff's small son in 'Macbeth,' I had played a number of parts, from 'Twelfth Night's Viola to 'The Merchant Of Venice's Portia'.
Felicity Kendal
#6. When I'm near you, I can feel you in here."
She pressed her hand against her heart.
"And when you're gone, there's an emptiness there. And it hurts. and the pain only goes away when you're close again. Tell me, Zane, tell me what that is."
~Portia
Tina Folsom
#7. ...and when I pretended to Portia or myself that the dark stuff couldn't touch me, that was a lie.
Brenna Yovanoff
#8. Dancing?", ventured Portia. "I do so prefer dancing to suffering, don't you, Nerissa?"
"You speak as if one must choose one over another. For every gentleman who has turned you around a ballroom can attest, dancing and suffering can be partners in step.
Christopher Moore
#9. People are constantly asking Portia and me if we are going to have children. We thought about it. We love to be around children after they've been fed and bathed. But we ultimately decided that we don't want children of our own. There is far too much glass in our house.
Ellen DeGeneres
#10. She understands suddenly that the stuff that fills her up is not the love or attention she might get from other people; it is the love she herself has for other people. We are, Portia decides, the people we love
Jessica Anya Blau
#11. Mick had heard Portia say that
before, but she had thought it was a
tale. How could a colored man be a
doctor?
Carson McCullers
#13. Good things must have comparers, I suppose,' said Portia, 'Or how would we knowhow good they are?
Elizabeth Enright
#14. Your growling and posturing might impress the sort of women you're accustomed to consorting with,but quite frankly, I find them to be a bit of a bore.
Portia to Julian
Teresa Medeiros
#15. Portia and I have been married for 4 years and they have been the happiest of my life. And in those 4 years, I don't think we hurt anyone else's marriage. I asked all of my neighbors and they say they're fine
Ellen DeGeneres
#16. Any day of the week I would choose to be "out" with others and in touch with myself ... then to be "in" with others and out of touch with myself.
Portia Nelson
#17. They broke my baby, Lauren, and made their own. I can't forgive them for that. I can't,
Portia Moore
#18. When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear.
Portia De Rossi
#19. I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn't right for me.
Portia De Rossi
#20. 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.
Portia De Rossi
#21. 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
#22. If I could play football, I'd play football. But not women's football - real football. Or I'd just date a quarterback.
Portia Doubleday
#23. The only place I've ever felt at home. She made my house a home, she's home.
Portia Moore
#24. I had a hell of a time convincing people I was gay - which was so annoying!
Portia De Rossi
#25. Just look at all the awards shows now. It has turned into a catwalk. You have to be wearing a certain designer, a certain dress, and everyone's critiquing.
Portia De Rossi
#26. Effortlessness is an attractive thing. And it takes a lot of effort to achieve it.
Portia De Rossi
#27. Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing.
Portia De Rossi
#28. 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.
Portia De Rossi
#29. In a way, I loved him. But I loved the roles that we both played a lot more. I had assigned him the role of my protector.
Portia De Rossi
#30. I played soccer for 12 years on three different teams at a time.
Portia Doubleday
#31. 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.
Portia De Rossi
#32. I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.
Portia De Rossi
#33. Eating disorders are shrouded in secrecy, and there are so many things I felt very ashamed of that I could never talk about. Even though I have fully recovered, there were still things that I needed to go through again and work through.
Portia De Rossi
#35. Why did you come after me? Why did you bring me this?" I thrust my hand in his face showcasing our ring.
"Yeah, I brought it to you. You're my wife. Why the hell do you keep taking it off?
Portia Moore
#36. I was actually born in deep rural Jamaica and came to Kingston as a high school girl.
Portia Simpson-Miller
#37. This ring means that I choose to spend the rest of my life with you. I promise to love you in the nurturing and selfless way that you love me. I've changed so much since I've known you. Your love has given me the strength to be softer. You've taught me kindness and compassion. You make me better.
Portia De Rossi
#38. True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be.
Portia De Rossi
#40. I was caught before I even knew I was being hunted,
Portia Moore
#41. 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.
Portia De Rossi
#42. In the end, we're all searching for what will make us sleep well at night, give us peace even when everything isn't perfect.
Portia Moore
#43. I'm a Christian woman, but I believe in human rights. I do not go into people's bedrooms. I appoint people based on their capabilities, not their sexual orientation.
Portia Simpson-Miller
#44. Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress.
Portia De Rossi
#46. I am astounded
at how long it takes
to discover ...
for the first time,
the things I have learned ...
over and over again
all my life.
Portia Nelson
#47. My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me.
Portia De Rossi
#48. 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.
Portia De Rossi
#49. I'm more androgynous, because men are supposed to be more spatial, women more literal - I'm a tomboy.
Portia Doubleday
#50. 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
#51. Once you realize your worth, you'll stop accepting coupons.
Portia A. Cosby
#52. I'll prove the prettier fellow of the two and wear my dagger with the braver grace
William Shakespeare
#53. I ran into Ellen at a photo shoot. She took my breath away. That had never happened to me in my life.
Portia De Rossi
#54. Recovery feels like shit. It didn't feel like I was doing something good; it felt like I was giving up. It feels like having to learn how to walk all over again.
Portia De Rossi
#55. There's a reason they call it a private life, I'd often say to interviewers. But there's a fine line between being private and being ashamed. The
Portia De Rossi
#56. I've wrapped myself up in him, something that no woman should do with any man.
Portia Moore
#57. I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that.
Portia De Rossi
#58. The theory of objectivism claims that there are certain things that most
people in society can agree upon. A model is pretty. A lawyer is smart. Our society is based upon objectivism. It's how we make rules and why we obey
them.
Portia De Rossi
#59. Normal isn't an adjective you wish to hear after putting that much effort into making sure it was spectacular.
Portia De Rossi
#60. 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.
Portia De Rossi
#61. Jamaica is more than just the 'brand' the world recognizes so well; it's a place of pride for the people who live here, its educational institutions, its sports achievements, its science and technology growth.
Portia Simpson-Miller
#62. I come from an artistic family. My dad's an actor, my mother's an actress, my sister's an actress. So I kind of grew up in that kind of environment. Oddly enough, I never really knew about my parents' work. I've seen small clips of it, but we never actually spoke about the business.
Portia Doubleday
#63. 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.
Portia De Rossi
#64. At my high school graduation, I graduated from home school, so it was pregnant teens and gang members. But, when I got on stage, there were kids in the background who all screamed, "Marry me!," very loud.
Portia De Rossi
#65. 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.
Portia De Rossi
#66. I knew I wasn't attractive, and I was very happy about that. I didn't want to be attractive. I didn't want to attract. As long as no one wanted to be let in, I didn't have to shut anyone out.
Portia De Rossi
#67. If I was 14 and knew some gay people, I wouldn't nearly have had the struggle I had. Our world is definitely changing.
Portia De Rossi
#68. 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 afford.
Portia De Rossi
#69. I love being able to wear dresses and clothes that make me feel feminine and beautiful, and I love the fact that I don't have to all the time; I can wear a tank and jeans.
Portia De Rossi
#70. 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.
Portia De Rossi
#71. I had to find a relationship with someone who could simultaneously make me grow up and keep me forever young.
Portia De Rossi
#72. 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.
Portia De Rossi
#73. Women in the postfeminist era, while supposedly strong and commanding and equal to men in every sense, looked weaker and smaller than ever before.
Portia De Rossi
#74. Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.
Portia De Rossi
#75. I thought, I'm out in my life, that doesn't involve my public life.
Portia De Rossi
#76. It was the time of year that makes every poet's heart sing and every lawyer question their life choices.
Portia Porter
#77. 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.
Portia De Rossi
#78. I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality.
Portia De Rossi
#79. The first time I was paparazzi'd, I thought I was being investigated for an insurance claim.
Portia De Rossi
#80. 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 terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.
Portia De Rossi
#81. Oh, I don't have any fans. Personally? I don't have any.
Portia De Rossi
#82. 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.
Portia De Rossi
#83. He's the master of manipulation, the king of allure.
Portia Moore
#84. Most important, in order to find real happiness, you must learn to love yourself for the totality of who you are and not just what you look like.
Portia De Rossi
#86. People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent.
Portia De Rossi
#87. 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.
Portia De Rossi
#88. Every animal has its own intelligence and sensitivities. They're all lovely, worthwhile, and deserving of our respect.
Portia De Rossi
#89. These shoes look like they're straight out of 'The Wizard of Oz,' but since I'm like the tornado that blew you into Oz, I guess you can wear Dorothy's red slippers. And if I'm gone and seem lost, maybe you can do a little click and I'll find my way home.
Portia Moore
#91. Think you I am no stronger than my own sex being so father'd and husbanded?
William Shakespeare
#92. My sister basically showed me how to be a person for many years of my life. I just didn't really fit anywhere, and my sister was always really comfortable in who she was.
Portia Doubleday
#93. I was 18 years old when I booked 'Youth in Revolt,' and it was my first movie, and I was starring in that movie - and even then, I didn't feel like I had made it.
Portia Doubleday
#94. There's a fine line between being private and being ashamed.
Portia De Rossi
#95. I thought that if I accomplished enough, that somehow I would be let off the hook in the future. Like I didn't have to keep striving and achieving because I had done that already, and it would add up to being enough.
Portia De Rossi
#96. If you empower people in their communities and get them jobs, no one like Dudus Coke can win their hearts and minds and hold them hostage.
Portia Simpson-Miller
#97. Thanks so much, everybody, for making gay marriage legal, thank you for everything you've done-I'm just going to walk through that door
Portia De Rossi
#98. 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.
Portia De Rossi
#99. 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.
Portia De Rossi
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