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.

Sometimes experience trumps assumption.

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.

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.

If you don't look out for others, who will look out for you?

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.