I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.

I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.

I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.

When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.

I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.

I am not myself; I am the potential of myself.