I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself.

Christ's purpose was to really show how everyone can be loved and how everyone should be loved and accepted.

I think I started out okay but with AIDS came a great deal of silence about gayness and this period of lose and morning, but at the same time a kind of feeling like you wanted to get back into the closet because being gay was such a terrible thing at that point.

Korean children get a lot of fuss made over them, I guess because life was tough in the old country, and it was a big deal if you survived. There's a big party thrown when you are 100 days old, followed by another when you make it to one whole year.

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.

I have so much hate that it has turned into love.

I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'