I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me.

When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.

Everything that ever happened to me fell in my lap.

We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.