Thanks so much, everybody, for making gay marriage legal, thank you for everything you've done-I'm just going to walk through that door

People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent.

Most important, in order to find real happiness, you must learn to love yourself for the totality of who you are and not just what you look like.

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.

We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting.

Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into.

The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.