I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.

People ask me what I'm writing. They think I'm Sandra Tsing Loh. Or they ask about stand-up. 'No, that's Margaret Cho.' I really think there is this kind of glomming, that they think we are somehow all the same person.

I think all women should learn how to strip. It's a really healthy, extremely challenging thing to do.

We actors, we're a fragile bunch, and yet we need to be strong because 90% of our lives is rejection.

You should see my house. It's sort of explosive. Like a crazy person lives there.

A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're just saying 'No. they're not casting non-white.' You're lumped into a category with people who are just not white.

The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'Oh, that was a big, fat fluke and, boy, was I ever lucky.