When you make drama you are like Picasso. Drama is whatever you want it to be.

I'm old enough to remember when there were no black quarterbacks - there were no blacks on TV. I hope my son or daughter doesn't have to be as fixated on race as I am, because he or she will grow up in freer times.

Men are handicapped when it comes to arguing, 'cause we have a need to make sense.

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack.

Stop the violence! Can't we all just get along?

I think it's better to have ideas.

So there's a cloud of rage around me, but being an artist kind of changes that. No matter what you thought coming in, what ignorant thing you believed, you're in show business for two years, you're like, "OK, I was wrong." It's hard to be mad at any particular group of people when you're an artist.