You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.

What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.

Acting is a youthful profession.

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

I'm a loner clear down deep to my guts.

My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn't believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They couldn't believe that it was free.

I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks were treated before the Civil War and after the Civil War.