Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.

That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.

I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.

I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.

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

You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.