Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn't interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don't think in terms of comic dialogue.

I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck.

Coffee is to wake up, coffee is to work with, coffee is to live with, coffee is life

Someone else's success is not your failure.

Home is where you feel unjudged, and where what I do isn't necessarily stupid or wrong.

What this is about is hopefully an opportunity for me to help pave the way for my future in terms of getting financially choosier. You have to plan the windfall as if it'll be your only one.

Well, I'm a big believer in 'never say never.

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology.

My Emmy competition is awfully good. My stomach is already in knots. The problem is that I don't drink, so I can't calm myself that way. I wish I could be better at pretending I don't care.

I want to drive! I love to drive! I drive at home in Barbados.

In a country where miracles are been emphasized, people lose their sense of priority.

Ideally, I'm also sending a message that everything passes, even hope, and sometimes you have to be patient while you wait for it to come back around again.

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

I have a lot of confidence in my shot and I'm willing to shoot it no matter what.

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

...he who goes down to the grave does not return.

If I sound like I'm enjoying myself, it's not artificial. It's real.

Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.

She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of life — one scratched on the wall.