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

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.

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.

I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they're funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness.

So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.

I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?

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