Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it's sacrificing your basic comforts.

For most of my relationships, I would have liaisons, and I would feel guilty.

Kids need to be educated about sex and sexuality and if they're going to have sex, learn how to protect themselves and not get pregnant.

I knew I wanted to be a performer and do comedy at 5 years old. My dad's wife, Marlene Rosenbaum, was boiling water and she goes, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" I said, "A comedian." And she laughed and laughed because she thought that was the cutest, funniest thing.

In the late '60s and '70s, when feminism was on the up sweep, there was an awareness of things that we're losing again.

Once you're heterosexual and comfortable with that, you don't need to take out an announcement every day.

I was really going through a transition in my life. I was tired of feeling victimized by my career.