I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose.

It's important to feel beautiful; it's political to feel beautiful.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

You have to constantly recreate yourself in show business, which is a very fast thing, especially now with the tremendous speed of social media. There are so many personalities, so many different kinds of comedy that you can access, so it’s definitely important to stake your claim and say who you are.

Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.

I think white people like to tell Asian people how they should feel about race because they're too scared to tell black people.

You don't become a Republican until you lose all your baby teeth and fall down a lot and get the croup and then become angry and bitter.