If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?

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.

Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do - that has nothing to do with anything.

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

There was a time when I couldn't watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise.

I am just myself, and who I am is a lot.

You have to learn how to care about people without taking on all of their problems.