I don't mind being disliked - I will be the one to step up and say what needs to be said if it helps one woman who comes after me.

If somebody said something racist around me, or you, or most people, you would correct it, you would stop it, but when they say things about women, so frequently no one says anything. That has to change.

I'd never even seen orange cheese. I mean, who decided to make that orange? And so there was something different about me that they wanted to crush. I don't think it had anything to do with my physicality, but every single day in school it was, "You're the ugliest thing I've ever seen."

From a really young age, I was into female empowerment and supporting the underdog. Right now, I'm into female vengeance.

At 13, when I was a runaway, I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland, Ore. We didn't always know where our next meal was coming from, but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention, those girls could paint a face, and I learned how because of them.

Why should I downplay myself to make someone else more comfortable?

I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.