Gillian Zinser Quotes

I was embraced entirely and completely by the LGBTQ community. So I always felt very comfortable and confident to live exactly how I wanted to.

We want to help the players be more comfortable in their own skin, a bit braver, a bit more aware and more understanding of each other.

Once you’re comfortable by yourself you learn to be more at ease with others.

My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.

I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come out of a closet. I never felt like I was in a closet. I never did. I always felt comfortable with who I am and the decisions I made.

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

I've never felt stigmatized in my profession, nor have I allowed myself to. I don't feel either male or female, I feel I am just me, and I should be able to do whatever I like.

For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.

Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.'

You need to be on your own so that you can meet people as you are, and as they are.

I do feel like I'm at ease in my own skin when I find an androgynous balance.

Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.

I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.

I try as hard as I know how to keep my reader relating on a broad level so I don't lead her someplace where she thinks that's the only thing that could cause insecurity.

I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.

I didn't really blossom until my mid teens, and by that time I had to work on my personality to make people like me. I found it easy to make people laugh and I was always pretty popular.

I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.

I can't wait to be seen as a woman. But I know I probably have to contribute to that with behaviour.

I'm open to whatever people want to call me.

'Nip/Tuck' did make me very comfortable in my own skin, no pun intended. I had to be stripped down a lot, and you're kind of in front of the whole world, and it teaches you to accept yourself and be comfortable with yourself real quickly.

Parents: instead of teaching our children to be brave boys or pretty girls, can we maybe just teach them how to be good humans?

Men and women are both humans, so, for me, that makes my characters and the work that I do human stories.

I can love people of every gender identity and expression. It is the soul that captivates me.

I've gotten to the point where I've gotten comfortable with my awkwardness.

It's important to accept people for the reality of what they are, who they are, whatever that is and heal from that yourself.