I’m not just a big-haired redhead country singer who dresses flamboyantly, has this wicked sense of humor and wears rhinestones.
I always felt different as a kid, and the Kinks were like, ‘Yeah, we’re the Kinks.’ Celebrate your difference don’t be afraid of your sense of humor, or your personality, or who you are. It emboldened me.
There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation’s history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it’s in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.
I think I’ve learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and from your heart – and I think a healthy sense of humor doesn’t hurt either.
Lesbian humor isn’t trying to sell anything, it doesn’t have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act if it weren’t, more women would do it.