I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father and she hung up the phone on me. Anne Heche More Quotes by Anne Heche More Quotes From Anne Heche I think self-exploration is one of the journeys in life that we are blessed to be able to have. Anne Heche journey blessed fear We do not fall in love with the package of the person, we fall in love with the inside of a person. Anne Heche falling-in-love persons fall What's so beautiful about breasts is their uniqueness. I don't understand the obsession with fakeness. It's a very odd thing, isn't it, to prefer fake and big to small and unique or just beautiful and real. Anne Heche unique real beautiful I think it takes an introspective person to want to go into the theater and see the dark side of themselves. Anne Heche dark want thinking It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow. Anne Heche loving-yourself important tragedy When I was with Ellen, I was telling people, If you come out, it's gonna be better for you. But I honestly don't know that. Anne Heche honest knows people I'm one of those people who was taught not to ruffle any feathers. Of course, I have no problem ruffling feathers. Anne Heche ruffles taught people I love comedy, because I like making fun of things even though they are dramatic. Anne Heche dramatic comedy fun I have been very clear to everybody that just because I'm getting married does not mean I call myself a straight. Anne Heche married doe mean To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart. Anne Heche mother sorry heart Most of my escapades were getting my Labrador dog into the back of my car to drive to Brooklyn where I worked at Avenue M Studios shooting a soap opera and battling being a 17 to 18-year-old playing twins being afraid that I was going to get fired, because who wouldn't fire me? I had no idea what I was doing. Anne Heche fire dog years I do not believe that I fell in love with a woman because I was abused. Anne Heche believe Are people angry with me? Sure, anything you do in your life, people are going to be angry at you. Anne Heche angry people Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more. Anne Heche typical people ideas We're in a world where every single movie, if it has a woman in it, is usually wrapped around the woman wanting to be liked in some way, either in her life, or she's young, she's an ingenue, she's a hero, she's the lover of somebody, she's the grandmother, she's a chef. Anne Heche grandmother hero world I've always kind of gone with my heart. Anne Heche kind gone heart The decisions that Ellen made on her show were between her and her producers. I supported her decisions. I was there to hug her when she got home. Anne Heche hug decision home I'm very grateful for the platform that I've had in my life to speak out about the things I care about. Anne Heche speaks-out grateful care It's no secret that my family was very, very poor, and I don't want that for my life or my children's life certainly. But some might say I could relax a bit more and know that that's not going to happen to me. I'm not going to end up in a car. Anne Heche car secret children I think it's always hard for children to talk about abuse because it is only memory. I didn't carry around a tape recorder … I didn't chisel anything in stone … Anybody can look and say, 'Well how do you know for sure?' And that's one of the most painful things about it. You don't. Anne Heche memories children thinking
