“You will never find what you are looking for in love, if you don’t love yourself.”

Peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no trouble, noise, or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart

I hate the truth so much that I’d rather have a giant dose of bulls**t anyday

Never be afraid to be kicked in the teeth. Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.

It doesn’t matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you’ve got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you.

You really don’t need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

Don’t be a drag be a queen.

So basically I did this whole show carrying 100lbs, looking out of one eye, dancing – and then my tits explode at the end. It’s not as easy as it looks!

Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger

Its okay to be sad. I’ve been trained to love my darkness

I’m a little bit naked, but that’s okay.

I want to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can create their own space in the world

People will always talk, so lets give them somethin’ to talk about

Sometimes in life you don’t always feel like a winner, but that doesn’t mean you’re not a winner.

Don’t you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can’t be exactly who you are.

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don’t care about anymore.

My fashion is part of who I am, and though I was not born with these clothes on, I was born this way.

We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Self love is not only loving the parts of yourself you deem beautiful, but also the parts you’d rather hide away knowing they are all deserving.

Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought.

You have to be a friend to yourself. You know, ’cause if you’re not a friend to yourself, you’re an enemy to yourself and if someone’s a friend of everybody they are an enemy to themselves.

I love doing theater. That’s where my home is.

From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.

I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They’re all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.

I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.