I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn't sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you're a teenager and you go to high school and you're in the business and you are known.

It's good to get out of the closet and talk about it and find out other people's views.

I will say that my personal business is my personal business. And I will leave it at that.

I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.

There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection.

The most beautiful thing is telling someone you love them, because you can only love another person if you love yourself

Honestly, there was a time after I came out that I really did not think I would be working again.

So the characters that I choose, I like to make sure that they have depth and that they have some sort of bite. It's more fun.

There’s a fear that grasps each individual and what they think is right and what they think is wrong.

It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.

They don't teach you just how to be in school. There's no class on that. There’s no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?

See each day as an investment in the future and be willing to do today what you wish to experience in the future.

If you did not live to love, what have you live for?

Whatever cosmic attraction had drawn [Jess & Addie] to one another in the first place was beginning to fill in with the chinks and mortar of very real, very likeable human traits.

That's part of being a real citizen: always questioning your leadership, not only about what it is doing in your own country, but what it is doing elsewhere. Because it is connected.

I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes.

The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.

Running with dogs is like dancing with winter

That's all I did - that's all I ever did - try to do what Billy Strayhorn did.

Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.

ALL THOUGHTS WHICH HAVE BEEN EMOTIONALIZED, (given feeling) AND MIXED WITH FAITH, begin immediately to translate themselves into their physical equivalent or counterpart.