I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I’m not complaining about, but it’s just different than the reality you dreamed.
ROSIE O'DONNELLI couldn’t imagine doing a show where I’d once again have to answer to corporate interests.
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When someone comments on my weight, I have to work hard to stand in front of the mirror and say, “This is who you are. You’re okay in this lady, and you’re a great, healthy, lovable and loving person.” I try to accept myself.
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You can imagine in China it’s like: ‘Ching chong hugong, ching chong kong, Danny Devito. Ching chong chong chong chong. The View. Ching chong!
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To give them what I never had heals me. Some days I look at them and almost start to cry. I think, How can I love them more than I did the day before? But it keeps growing.
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The words of musicals were the moral codes that I lived by. I found meaning and messages in musicals that I didn’t find in churches or school books and it really made me come alive in a way.
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The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can’t be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who’s is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn’t.
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Are you fat because you’re a lesbian, or are you a lesbian because you’re fat?
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My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.
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I think life is easier if you’re straight.
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I think Oprah who is the height of aspiration and inspiration recognizes something in me that is germane.
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I want the same standard applied to homosexuals as is applied to heterosexuals.
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I love to be able to support other women comics.
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Without art there is no hope.
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There are some heterosexuals that have heterosexual behavior that is appalling sexually, that is deviant and bad and not really moral and Christ-like and biblical. But those people are never questioned as to whether or not they’re allowed to be a parent.
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The hope for me going back into television – after doing what will have been two years of radio – is to bring that authenticity with me. And, to not have the visual be overpowering the content.
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I couldn’t imagine doing a show where I’d once again have to answer to corporate interests.
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