JUDITH LIGHT

I found that the body, mind and spirit are all connected. They are not separate pieces.

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.

Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets.

Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair.

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.

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

But celebrity really doesn't mean anything unless you use it for finding some way to give back and I've always felt that way.

I was different and people made fun of me.

My weight went up and down like a yo-yo.

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

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

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

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

I got into theatre very early, so yes I was surrounded by gay people quite early and frequently.

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

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

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've always felt that celebrity was wonderful for a lot of the perks that it could give you.

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.

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.

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

I couldn't care less if someone is gay or straight.

We all have our own closets to come out of.