I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: You gotta stand back from it to get the full effect.

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.

While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice.

You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it.