I am not well educated or bright enough to be politically clued in, but I hope in the film that I'm going to shock a few people, win a lot of people over.

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

I really need to be alone. I can't deal with someone sleeping next to me.

I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity.

If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that.

I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.

The point I'm trying to make is, I'm really quite neutral. I have not been conditioned.

I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

An extraordinary diva would never sit by herself.

Fear of failure is one of the principal fears creating obstacles in the way of successful self-actualization and achieving goals

You must not be worried about your belly but worry about your soul

Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.

Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.

So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.

When I am holding a water balloon, so many things look so unnecessarily dry.

The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.

I've been to Vulcan where I've been vulcanized, Carbon where you get carbonated and Standard where you get standardized. Ernie Isley's invited me to Castor … and I'm not looking forward to it.

I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.

Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one.