Lea DeLaria
Lea DeLaria
Lea DeLariais an American comedian, actress, and jazz musician. The "famously controversial" DeLaria was "the first openly gay comic to break the late-night talk-show barrier" with her 1993 appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show. She is best known for her portrayal of inmate Big Boo on Netflix original series Orange is the New Black...
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What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.
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What do you mean, you "Don't believe in homosexuality"? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.
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Now everyone's decided that all lesbians wear lipstick!
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An icon? That's a little much, you're putting me up there with the Statue of Liberty. But yeah, I am identified with the city.
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I can't discriminate? Oh, that's ripe, coming from a straight white man. What's the matter, baby doesn't feel like he belongs? Well why don't you try a place that was set up just for you? Like the world!
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I tend to like very bitchy women. I find myself most attracted to smart, sarcastic, bitchy women.
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They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved!
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Learn all the rules... then break them.
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My idea as far as comedy goes has always been to push the limits of what's acceptable for a woman to do or say or be. My hero in that would be Lenny Bruce, who teaches us that words have no meaning. It's the intent behind them that is what's important.
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No one has the responsibility to be out to anyone but himself or herself. I made my choice a million years ago.
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It's really not enough to just have black women. A really good idea could be to comment on how they are treated by society.
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As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.
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My mother said to me, 'Why do you have to call yourself a dyke? Why can't you be a nice lesbian?' 'Because I'm not a nice lesbian, I'm a big dyke.'
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It's a cosmic joke that I'm a lesbian, because I understand men so well but women are a complete mystery to me.