So I show appreciation for the little gifts that have been handed to me.

The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful self-portrait that you can.

In every person we meet there's this little piece of God in them and that's who you talk to. And that's the only person that you allow to talk to you. When something else is speaking, you walk away from that. If it's not good, if it's not love, you walk away from it

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.

As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm

The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.

So I show appreciation for the little gifts that have been handed to me.