Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?

One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.

You can either destroy your spirit or you can accept and love yourself just the way you are.

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.

I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by.

Self-acceptance begets acceptance from others, which begets even deeper, more genuine self-acceptance. It can be done. But no one is going to bestow it on you. It is a gift only you can give yourself.