You should be able to tell your child, "This is an actor. And she's older than Mommy!"

Culture is defined, really, by the artists who record what the everyday experience is like and then translate it to a common piece of art that all people can respond and relate to.

Why do you think people don't think that homosexual parents are good? You don't know what a homosexual family looks like. I will be the role model for the good gay family. Don't let these children suffer without families because of your bias.

Without art there is no hope.

I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.

Public school teachers in Long Island, New York, saved my life in the '70s. They were involved and invested and helpful. One took me into her family and loved me back to life. She taught me that love is not formed and families are not formed by blood. That love makes a family.

I was 29 and I really fell in love, I think, for the first time. I was vulnerable in a way I didn't think I could be.