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

I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.

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

I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done.

My mother's great. She has the major looks. She could stop you from doing anything, through a closed door even, with a single look. Without saying a word, she has that power to rip out your tonsils.

Actors have no color. That's the art form.

I have witnessed things the ancients would have called miracles, but they are not miracles. They are the products of someone's dream, and they happen as the result of hard work.