"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
Topic(s):
Courage
More From Portia de Rossi
- "I want to exude strength and intelligence."
- "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 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."
More In Courage
- "The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me."― Thomas Huxley
- "The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority."― Ralph W. Sockman
- "Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on."― Francois de La Rochefoucauld