I’ve tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.

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.

Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.

It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.

They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.

Doctor, I have more education than most white people.

I can see lights in the distance trembling in the dark cloak of night Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing a waltz on All Souls Night.

He knows that there are occasional pauses in the struggle.

He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but to give alms.

...the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door. To touch the humanity inside and connect to the humans in the marketplace.

I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.

Think for yourself and question authority.