My mother was a failed actress, but that was our bread and butter - what we loved most to do was to go to the theater and talk about it and dissect it and understand it.

Your good friend has just taken a piece of cake out of the garbage and eaten it. You will probably need this information when you check me into the Betty Crocker Clinic.

Cancer is really hard to go through and it's really hard to watch someone you love go through, and I know because I have been on both sides of the equation.

My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don't do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie.

A couple of hanging glands have nothing to do with making someone a man.

Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.

I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

I am definitely as happy as I've ever been. Happier, I would say, than I've ever been.

I can't go on anymore bad dates. I would rather be home alone than out with some guy who sells socks on the internet.

I don't define myself. I'm just a woman in love with another woman.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. So the only thing to really be afraid of is if you don't go get your mammograms.

God listens through the atomic door of love.

I’m transgender” she repeated. “It means I was born with certain male characteristics. One of which I still have.

If the inevitably of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that's what everyone else does.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.

My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future. You're going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody else.

In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.

I adore the work of Stephen Sondheim. I like musicales in general. They make surprisingly great running tapes.

I love to do fashion. I always put fashion in all of my storytelling because that's what I am, but I'm not selling clothes, I'm telling a story.

When I give, I give myself.