Actress

If you want to be a star, don't bother doing it because it ends up being very empty.

Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.

I was different and people made fun of me.

It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political.

It frustrates me about myself when I see I'm not taking the road that demands more of me.

You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.

I loved my role on Who's the Boss? There is always some of me in every character that I play.

People can only do what they are ready to do when they are ready to do it.

The message of transformation and how we all can live from our heart, not just from our head, was a very important message for me to learn in my own life.

You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - people are people.

The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.

I love being able to make people laugh.

The more we can purge ourselves of the diseases we create the more we can become magnificent people.

I learned so much from Tony Danza I learned so much about myself.

Women don't realize how powerful they are.

You really have to listen to yourself and know if what someone is saying is true for you.

There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights.

I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out.

To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do.

Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be.