Time has taught me that parents do the best they can with the light they are seeing with. That is what we all do.

In my head I have had the most torrid affairs with actors I have worked with. You should hear what George Clooney and I have got up to!

In my day there was no one to tell me anything and I feel I have a responsibility to help a new generation. A lady in Atlanta came up to me and said: 'Honey, you are a ministry.' It is about the knowledge I can give others. I think gays will look after their own.

I don't know why all three, my comedic idols are... women.

I'm not Kathy Griffin. I can't do 1200 seat venues. I need 300, 400 something like that.

I have a lot of shame, and until I got sober at 42 years of age, I had never voted. I was just a hippie.

I grew up in Chattanooga.

All my boyfriends are in their 20s.

I don't mind playing gay because there's a whole plethora of gay roles out there, but if I get asked to play one more Southern hairdresser, I'm going to scream.

Big Brother' has put me off people. I thought, 'I'm gonna get a dog.' I really think I'm going to become more reclusive. It was nothing like I expected. I was so naive about it.

The thing that I love about 'Will & Grace' is that there's a clear-cut reason for my character to be there. I come in with the zinger. My character seldom has much to do with moving the story ahead. I know exactly what my job is there. It's just a party, basically. I'm just having a ball.

People say, 'Oh, you do theater!' And I say, 'Honey, I do theater to get better TV and film roles.'

That's the secret to happiness. Find something you can make money at that you really love to do.

I'm Southern to the bone.

From my years on 'Will & Grace,' you'd think I'm Madonna.

My mother and grandmother created this secret garden where it was OK for boys to play with dolls, and it was OK for little boys to sew potholders.

In 1993, I premiered my solo piece 'Hysterical Blindness and Other Southern Tragedies That Have Plagued My Life So Far' at the Hudson Mainstage Theatre. It then went to New York and ran for several months Off-Broadway.

Film's a director's medium. Stage an actor's medium.

I had 20,000 followers and I treasured that. People'd say, 'Oh that's nothing.' I said, 'What are you crazy? That's 20,000 people that wanna hear what I gotta say!'

The only thing I know how to do is be funny - that's it.

I was reading Agatha Christie as a little boy.

I've always been interested in forensics and the way they solve things.

I don't watch scripted television, and I finally figured out why. It's my line of work, you know? It's what I do.

All my life I've always been so ashamed of being feminine.