Jewish people have given me all the breaks you can possibly have. But of course, it's wonderful when you feel that your own nationality has made it. It gives you hopes.

Even in the days when they did Othello, you didn't necessarily have to be black to play Othello. You wore the makeup.

I tried to make it a simple as possible for people so they could pronounce my name.

The face and the actor is great, but if you were to start out and you said, "my name is Humphrey" somebody would punch you out, because that's a stupid name to have.

I did sketch comedy for years. Ive always enjoyed it.

The phone rings and there's another Broadway show or another TV series or a movie. That's the gamble you take.

One of the terrible things about doing movies is that the writers never consider the temperature outside.