Margaret Cho

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.