We have a lot of trans friends. We know lots of people who have been trying to [model]; we know a lot about it.

When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.

When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.

If you're not sure how you feel about same-sex marriage, go and meet some of the families and see what they're looking for. Once you take it out of the caricature of what gay people are and what gay marriage is, and put it in the reality of family and what these folks are fighting for, it's really amazing.

If you get a little gassy, you've got to let it go. So people used to say to me, 'You're like a whoopee cushion.'

Sometimes experience trumps assumption.

Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had to change.