[The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!

Most of all, I dislike this idea nowadays that if you're a black person in America, then you must be called African-American. Listen, I've visited Africa, and I've got news for everyone: I'm not an African.

You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.

I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are, she's going to end up looking like me.

Just call me black, if you want to call me anything.

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.

My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.