The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth.

I don't like to watch myself. I can't get into the story; I'm too critical.

Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home - my second home, really.

I'm a New Yorker; my oven is used for storage.

I think some people watch 'Raging Bull,' or they watch 'The Piano Teacher,' and I think they're more, maybe, able to process an antihero in a dramatic context, where people more want comedy to take care of them. But that's not really taking care of people. That's just providing escape, which sometimes is necessary.

I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people.

It's a fine line between hack and good comedy.

I loved that about her because I knew it would open the door for a lot of comedy, because I knew that the conflict would come, because not many people live like the way she does.