I realized, "Oh my god, this is an enormous play. And it's almost all me. Big. big chunks of speeches, speeches, speeches." And I started to panic.

It is my biggest fear, something happening to a child, your child, is unfathomable.

I want to make sure that what I do has specific purpose and is not just throwing a dart at something to keep busy.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

There's this notion that in order to draw attention and to be considered for roles I want to be considered for, you need a certain amount of notoriety.

If you're a person who complains about everything all the time, then you're just the boy who cried 'wolf.' But if you do it on occasion and about the right reasons, then people listen.

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.