When I was promoting "As I Am" last year, I went on "The 700 Club" (1966). I wasn`t thinking about what it represents. I guess I was living in a little bit of a bubble, and I was surprised that it upset so many people. If I had it to do over again, I wouldn`t go, because I don`t agree with that anti-gay stuff. I don`t understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people. What if it was a sin to be short? Well, I guess it is in the Miss Oklahoma pageant.

I`m a very controversial figure in the Christian world. I don`t believe if you`re gay or you have a drink or you dance, you`re going to hell. I don`t think that`s the kind of God we have. The Pat Robertsons and Jerry Falwells of the world are scary. I want to be a Christian like Christ - loving and accepting of other people.

I am a Christian and I don`t want there to be any confusion about what I believe or who I am. I don`t believe gay people are going to hell. I believe that judgment is left to the one upstairs and I believe Jesus is all about love. If I can live my life even just a smidgen the way God made his son for us as an example, I`m happy. I do not judge other people for what they believe, but for me, this is what works.

I was a spiritual kid. (Guidepost Magazine)

I`ve never changed my clothes so fast in my life. - accepting her 1999 Tony Award, when she had to quickly change out of costume as her award was presented immediately following a musical number she performed in.

On being four feet, eleven inches tall: "I used to want to be tall, and then I thought, `If I were tall, then people would say I was pretty and not cute.` And then I realized that there are worse things than being called cute. They could say I was a bitch, which would be terrible in my book. So I`ve decided that this height ain`t so bad."

I said O.K. I was happy to give him that gift. And I watch every week because I`m supportive of Aaron; whether we`re together or not, I love him always. I think it`s a genius show. But...it is weird when I see her behaving in ways that are different from me. I`m really not that judgmental girl. But you have to let artists go where they go - quoted in The New York Times describing how she gave Aaron Sorkin permission to create the "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" (2006) character "Harriet Hayes", based on her.