...I will not be a sight gag for anybody. I will not do anything degrading to myself or other fat people.

Its really hard to go out knowing that you are going to be the center of attention just about anywhere you go and that its not going to be in a positive way.

I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. I've turned down roles.

God respects me when I work but loves me when I sing.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

When someone, let's say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it's like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.

The most important thing is that you're comfortable with who you're working with as a person. Forget the music, if you can sit in a room with someone and you don't have awkwardness.

Nothing attracts me like a closed door.

Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it.

I'm not a tough boss in that I don't raise my voice, I don't freak out, and I don't have a temper most of the time.

The difference between happiness is no-where and happiness is now-here has something to do with the event, and everything to do with how you see the event. Your perception is key.

The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.