If you read to me I could tell you everything that was read. They didn't know what it was. They knew I wasn't lazy, but what was it?

When I was a kid they didn't call it dyslexia. They called it you know, you were slow, or you were retarded, or whatever. What you can never change is the effect that the words 'dumb' and 'stupid' have on young people. I knew I wasn't stupid, and I knew I wasn't dumb. My mother told me that. If you read to me, I could tell you everything that you read. They didn't know what it was. They knew I wasn't lazy, but what was it?

When I was 9 years old, Star Trek came on.

Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.

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.

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.

It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.