I have a talent for missing the best and greatest parties.

I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year.

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.

Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.

I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.

Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.

Be talented enough to make it and stupid enough to keep trying.

...one dies of thirst just when the palm tress have appeared on the horizon.

A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.

I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

it's amazing what you can get used to.

My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband.

What a few fans are trying to do is cause trouble.

Seven thirty in the morning is too early for a man of my standing.

When you're an outsider or a misfit, if you play it smart, your motto should be, 'I'll show 'em. I will show you.'

Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze. I will not budge for no man's pleasure.