If I don't wear a wig, I'm called a nasty f*g, if I do wear a wig, I'm hilarious.

I love an act that makes fun of the situation, and of course makes fun of yourself. That's important, you can't take yourself too seriously.

I loved smart and fearless comedians like Joan Rivers and Don Rickles. When they started out, what they did wasn't always socially accepted, but they both had careers that lasted over 50 years.

To call me a woman is very nice.

I'm more of an 'erotic clown,' it doesn't fall into the female category.

I now view life as a complex and unpredictable affair that cannot be mastered. It can be embraced. It can be negotiated more or less skillfully. But mastered? Not a chance.

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

People walk in the door because they need you to take care of them -- to feed them or fix them.

Education truly can change a person’s story, it gave me everything. Whatever happens, get an #‎ education .

Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.

Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.

Swimming gave me my start, but my pal Tarzan did the real work. He set me up nicely.

Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?

I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.

Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed