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

When I was nine years old, Star Trek came on, I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, 'Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there's a black lady on television and she ain't no maid!' I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be.

If you can handle the fact that people are going to be mad at you when you do what you think is right, you'll be alright.

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

If there wasn't something called acting, they would probably hospitalize people like me.

I eat eight bags of chips in one sitting, and then nothing for a day or two. I learned that my body thought it was starving, so it would hold on to fat.

I don't really view communism as a bad thing.