I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don’t know how I can ever express my gratitude for that because my parents would have been a mess.

Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.

The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.