I practice yoga every day. The practice calms my spirit, and allows me to be present.

I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race.

To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.

I have from time to time been a double A or triple A personality. I'm not anymore. I'm more lenient on myself.

I love the smell of fried chicken.

I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I’m truly persuasive.

I have this vision that I'm really watching each one of my daughters start to become women, and mothers. And this is what's gonna save our planet.

Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.

You can never lead unless you follow.

There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.

I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it.

I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body.

You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.

I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window.

I take great responsibility in any character that I play.

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

The best joke-tellers are those who have the patience to wait for conversation to come around to the point where the jokes in their repertoire have application.

There is a spiritual law of choosing, believing, abiding, and holding steady in our walk with God, which is essential to the working of the Holy Spirit either in our sanctification or healing.

Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.

The void Papa's death left in me became a kind of cavity, into which later experiences were to be laid.

We're not great friends, but I admire him. If he thinks he's the best player of the century, that's his problem.