Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

Things have a way of moving to the left, and then they move back to the right before somebody finds themselves in the center. That seems to be the nature of the creative world. It's not stagnant. I don't get upset about it.

If I had known being insane was so much fun, I'd have gone crazy long ago.

Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.

Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing.

I think the real understanding comes when we recognize our humanity in each other. That's not just between blacks and whites. That's between all religions as well.

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.