So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles.

I think anybody would be hard pressed not to relate to at least one of the characters, because there's so many different multifaceted people populating this crazy world.

I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am.

I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.

There are no secrets in life; just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface.

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.

I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.

I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.

My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.

Never fear to ask what you truly want. You will always get exactly what you desire.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

Mmm....she's doomed! You're doomed!! They're all doomed! Notice I didn't specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, I predicted it. How very WISE of me.

What if history was changed? slavery reversed Would black ladies see white boys and clinch they purse?

When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.

Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant.

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

I don't know how I kept sane - maybe I'm not sane

The Human moral keyboard is limited ... there's nothing you can play on it that hasn't been played before. And, my dear Friends, I am sorry to say this, but it has its lower notes.

Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.