Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you..

You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different….

I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression..

A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented..

Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people - most of whom you don't know - sitting in….

I happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work..

President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the w….

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that..

You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believ….

Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides..

Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create someth….

I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a go….

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks….

I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt..

You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time..

Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor..

Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities..

Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right..

I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist..

Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is n….

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment..