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

Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.

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 feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.