I won once [an Oscar]. So it can't be that racist.

I fear waking up one morning and finding out my life was all for nothing. We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. When you're kind to someone in trouble, you hope they remember and are kind to someone else and so on. Soon it will be like a wildfire.

I'm as American as Chevrolet.

I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.

I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.

I had such a good time doing that movie [Sister Act 2]. My daughter's in that movie. It was a fun film to do. And it shocked a lot of people, because they loved it, and they take it with them.

I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do.