Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.

The last thing I want to be is a rich black superstar. I just want to act.

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.

If you expect someone else to guide you, you'll be lost.

I love to see actors' work. I love to surf channels late at night and accidentally run into movies I hadn't seen before. It makes me very proud of the profession.