I have the strangest time to get cast in anything. 'Ghost' was the same thing. Six months I had to wait for them to decide they had seen everybody possible. Why not? What limits me? I'm black? Oh, am I black?

Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE

If you're not sure how you feel about same-sex marriage, go and meet some of the families and see what they're looking for. Once you take it out of the caricature of what gay people are and what gay marriage is, and put it in the reality of family and what these folks are fighting for, it's really amazing.

I'm a big old egotistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it.

There are times when I haven't been proud of America or really proud. But there have been times that I've been incredibly proud of the country.

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.

I'd like somebody to get rid of the death tax. That's what I want. I don't want to get taxed just because I died. I just don't think it's right. If I give something to my kid, I already paid the tax. Why should I have to pay it again because I died?