I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

I know people look at me and try to make conclusions about me immediately, based on the obvious, let's say.

But as a woman, I really started feeling vulnerable on the set, and I really felt that it was important that I should not be open for invitation or making myself look as though I was waiting for something.

An extraordinary diva would never sit by herself.

I am not well educated or bright enough to be politically clued in, but I hope in the film that I'm going to shock a few people, win a lot of people over.

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.