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.

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.

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 love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again.

Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?