If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it's a good thing to turn around and make it work for others.

Audiences believe what you believe. It's a matter of believing yourself. If I believe me, then you've got no choice. None at all.

But I was 22 before I took my first dance class. I had never been athletic, so I was very stiff; I still am. I think what I got mostly from dance was carriage.

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

Don't be afraid of what you want. This is your time. The barriers are down.

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single ‘victim’ of Columbine?