All good writers across the board, if they're dealing with real tragedy, they will give you comedy in it. And if they're dealing with real comedy, there will be tragic moments in it.

My parents were very traditional Nigerians who wanted doctor, lawyer, teacher [children], but when I actually had a dream and I presented the dream to them, they were 100 percent supportive.

I loved sports, so acting died and it was all sport. But I always used to get in trouble, because after lights out I would sneak out to watch things on TV.

To work around and be successful in a round configuration in the theater, you have to connect with everyone.

I think part of the sadness of Hamlet is given different circumstances, this guy had the capability of being something really great and not ending up poisoned on the ground.

I think Hamlet is a very funny play - Hamlet is riddled with wit.

You don't really audition for Hamlet; Hamlet is one of those roles that a director or producer decides you should do it.

I think Hamlet, as much as he loves his privacy and is kind of an introvert, he's a very functional introvert. When he has to be out, he can be out with people.

I'm going to be criticized by lots of "scholars," but I think Shakespeare's best comedy often appears in his tragedies, actually. Not necessarily in his comedies.

Put out more energy and it will return to you ... multiplied.

Embrace reality by imagination.

Im Sorry was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.

I read a lot of those Single Girl in New York books, like "Fear of Flying," where you could sort of put yourself, through transference, into the Jewish Girl in New York situation.

Most people treat the news media like the exercise bike they have in their basement. They're glad it's there but they never use it.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical

Don't beat yourself up for not being perfect. But you might want to kick your own a## if you're not trying to get better.

There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.

One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect

The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals.