It you want to be somebody, If you want to go some where, you've got to wake up and pay attention

When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.

I don't think in terms of failure....I don't feel like anyone outside of me should be setting limitations. People should be encouraged to shoot for the moon.

If you get a little gassy, you've got to let it go. So people used to say to me, 'You're like a whoopee cushion.'

I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.

If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazing guests.

There are roles I am never considered for. Meryl Streep roles, let's say. Why not? I really wanted to do 'Ironweed,' for example, because the depression era in this country was one of the best for multiracial people, because everybody was poor. Everybody lived in the tents, and under buildings, and under gratings, together.