Mother Earth is in pain and ailing - bglobal warming. The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty. When I was born, there were 2.5 billion people living on the whole planet. Now there are 2.5 billion people living on less than $2 a day. That's the kind of reality we have to deal with.

The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty.

Mother Earth is in pain and ailing because of global warming.

I have the capacity to express what I feel needs to be expressed. And I try to do what I believe in.

My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.

I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.

I didn't elect [Barack] Obama because he's a black; I voted for Obama because he was the right person at the time.