Sometimes blessings come in strange packages.

Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.

I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression.

The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have.

A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second.

How we act with each other really reveals our most animal instincts.

I can fathom anything, man. I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.

[ When I met Barack Obama] He says, I do a pretty good me myself - he said something like that. But he's - he is a close talker. He's a touchy guy.

I just think racism is within each and every one of us. It's everyone's responsibility to figure out how they deal with this kind of obsolete instinct.

I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen.

We haven't done enough work to encourage minorities to strive to make movies. Hollywood is a place full of white male directors - there are many good ones. We just haven't nurtured our voices.

You can't ever get too much of Paris.

Drama school is a pretty intense experience, and I think it changes who you are.

Don't marry the person you think you can live with marry only the individual you think you can't live without.

Let's not let our fear of dementia deepen our fear of dementia.

I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.

I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.

I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.

The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.

My job makes me travel a lot and too often I'm away from my children, but I don't ever stop being a mom inside my head and my heart. There is no higher love than that.

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.