Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.

I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year.

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.

Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.

I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.

Be talented enough to make it and stupid enough to keep trying.

Some days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror.

Words motivate.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it's so easy to just have a great writer write you a line.

If you live up to your privileges, the angels cannot be restrained from being your associates.

Well, how'd we get to talking about our ancestors? People think we don't talk about anything else in Charleston.

Without the study of Samskrit one cannot become a true Indian and a true learned man.

There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.

Thou shalt not ration justice.

This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.