Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

A lot of people don't want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama.

Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.