In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up not to have this particular autonomy, then you're not disappointed.

I feel very lucky because I don't think there's any part I can't play. There are parts that scare me more than others.

I didn't know that my sister was really my mother until I was thirty-seven years old. But life has taught me that there have been a lot of things that I didn't know.

The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.

If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger issues for Americans.

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.