The people who can be helping to make movies that have blacks and Latinos and women and all that - that movie doesn't come to you. Because the idea is that there's no place for black movies.

When I was 9 years old, Star Trek came on.

I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.

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

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

No matter what you say to yourself, you do want to win. You try to look casual, like you're not thinking, 'oh, please pick me.'

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.