My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me.

If your self-esteem really does depend on how you look you're always going to be insecure. There's no way you can get around it because you are going to age. Even if you get that perfect body you're going to get older and older and older. You can't avid it. So you have to somehow, at some point, take control and sift the focus and decide who you are, what you can contribute to the world, what you do and say, is so much more important than how you look.

I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking.

Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.

I had to find a relationship with someone who could simultaneously make me grow up and keep me forever young.

I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.

Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.