Portia de Rossi graces the June 2013 cover of Los Angeles Confidential magazine and inside, she dishes about her marriage to Ellen DeGeneres, turning 40 and playing the nasty Lindsay Bluth Frank in season 4 of “Arrested Development.” 

On the ‘Arrested Development’ reboot coming back due to fan support: “Every single person that came up to me and asked me about Arrested Development was great, and I would end up talking to them about what I thought was going on. The only thing I wouldn’t do is the chicken dance (laughs).”

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On gay marriage: “Gay marriage is the idea whose time has come. You can’t stop it. We’re all talking about it so much because it actually already is here. If there weren’t such a strong debate, it wouldn’t actually ever get done. So I welcome the strong debate. I welcome people really hashing it out and thinking about it and talking about it, because it really is the last civil rights issue that we’re going to have to deal with in our country.”

On marriage to Ellen DeGeneres: “We were together for four solid years before we got married, but the minute we said ‘I do,’ the minute we stood up in front of our parents and our friends and committed to each other, our relationship changed. I don’t think people understand how important that little ceremony is and what it actually does to people.”

On turning 40: “I was like, 40? Who cares? Then I woke up the next morning and I went, ‘F**k, I’m 40!’ All of a sudden the party’s over: What does it mean to be 40? It’s an interesting milestone because it does ask for a little self-reflection.”

On her nasty AD character: “When you have a character that’s either incredibly vapid or nasty or insensitive, you think, ‘Gosh, that’s quite a character for me to play because, of course, I’m none of those things. And then, it just comes back like that, and you’re like, ‘Wow, that didn’t take much effort at all!’ And you have to wonder…”