When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.

Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.

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

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

We're dealing with old issues that aren't ours. We carry them and we pass them on to those who come after us. I am hoping to crack some of those.

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.

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