Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.

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.

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 have never been in a violent movie or television show.

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.

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 happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.