For me to be ten pounds thinner is a full-time job, and I am handing in my notice and walking out the door!!

Homophobia is a tough one. In some places it's actually very OK to be homophobic. Comedy clubs in general are very unsafe spaces for LGBT, for women, for Asian people. So my goal in comedy has sort of been to make this a safe space for people who were like me.

I always thought that people told you that you're beautiful-that this was a title that was bestowed upon you. [...] I think that it's time to take this power into our own hands and to say, "You know what? I'm beautiful. I just am. And that's my light. I'm just a beautiful woman."

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

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

I got back from Toronto, where they had a severe outbreak of SARS - you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome.

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.