It's good to get out of the closet and talk about it and find out other people's views.

I will say that my personal business is my personal business. And I will leave it at that.

I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.

There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection.

The most beautiful thing is telling someone you love them, because you can only love another person if you love yourself

Honestly, there was a time after I came out that I really did not think I would be working again.

So the characters that I choose, I like to make sure that they have depth and that they have some sort of bite. It's more fun.

There’s a fear that grasps each individual and what they think is right and what they think is wrong.

It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.

They don't teach you just how to be in school. There's no class on that. There’s no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?

You have your private life and you have your public life, and just don’t let them interfere.

The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

The trouble with this whole country is that it's divided up into little puddles with big fish in each one of them.

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

We're straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in that belonging.

When you're given a song, it's my job to record the lyrics, story and emotion, and make everyone who is listening to the song believe that it was my words and experience.

The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages, only then will Israel be calm for the next 40 years.

The [Elian] raid... was almost worth it, if only to watch Jesse Jackson...defending an armed pre-dawn raid by the US government on a minority household.

We must create our own world or we will die from inaction

A man should always be drunk, Minnie, when he talks politics - it's the only way in which to make them important.