If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers.

If you're willing to stand for what you believe in ... you won't need advice from me, because you will be able to handle whatever comes.

Chocolate and candy. That's what we brought in to our friends. We worked in East Berlin with other artists who were smuggled out to come work in the Western Bloc. It was extraordinary because people in East Berlin just wanted to know what was happening. Music. Fashion. The news. All of the things we get every day.

I believe that parts of people like John Garfield and Moms Mabley, the parts of them that I needed to be able to do what I'm doing, came into me. There's a very nice feeling that there are many, many spirits inside of me looking after me . . .

You don't want to think something might be racist, but it might be, because your gut is telling you it is

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

Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.