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

My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.

You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.

If you get a little gassy, you've got to let it go. So people used to say to me, 'You're like a whoopee cushion.'

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?

I always wore sneakers when I wanted to. It was always about being comfortable and being myself.

[The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!