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

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I think self-exploration is one of the journeys in life that we a... by Anne Heche

I think self-exploration is one of the journeys in life that we are blessed to be able to have.

journey blessed fear

We do not fall in love with the package of the person, we fall in... by Anne Heche

We do not fall in love with the package of the person, we fall in love with the inside of a person.

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.

unique real beautiful

I think it takes an introspective person to want to go into the theater and see the dark side of themselves.

dark want thinking

It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.

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.

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.

ruffles taught people

I love comedy, because I like making fun of things even though th... by Anne Heche

I love comedy, because I like making fun of things even though they are dramatic.

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.

married doe mean

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.

phones mother father

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.

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.

fire dog years

I do not believe that I fell in love with a woman because I was a... by Anne Heche

I do not believe that I fell in love with a woman because I was abused.

believe

Are people angry with me? Sure, anything you do in your life, peo... by Anne Heche

Are people angry with me? Sure, anything you do in your life, people are going to be angry at you.

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.

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.

grandmother hero world

I've always kind of gone with my heart. by Anne Heche

I've always kind of gone with my heart.

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.

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.

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.

car secret children