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.

You know, you learned that very young in American culture that the feminine boys don't do well. And yet, I had a dad who was a lieutenant colonel in the army. My dad was a man's man, but he still adored me. And somehow in the midst of that, I still grew up hating the sissy in me.

I always call my journey into sobriety, my journey into queerdom, because I really did hate everything about myself.

Nobody really knows if there's a God - not Oprah, not Joel Osteen, not the Pope. Nobody has touched or felt or conversed with God. They say they have, but let's get real. I think that is what keeps me from coming out as an atheist. I think to myself, even the atheists don't know that there isn't a God. Nobody knows anything.

I figured out quick I had to write my own ticket. I realized I could tell stories and make money from it.