And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine

Life isn't fair, but you can be.

Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.

At my age, turning gray is kind of a blessing, where it softens all of the other horrible things it does to you, but it is what it is.

I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful.

Television's grown up a lot. It's a little more adult, which I think is a good thing. It allows actors to tell more complex stories. I'm happy to see where it ends up.

There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion