“If you know what you’re looking for, that’s all you’ll get – what’s previously known. But when you’re open to what’s possible, you get something new – that’s creativity.”

I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.

I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.

What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.

When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.

Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries

I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

You’ll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.

There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.

I’m greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn’t do it, that somehow I can deliver.

I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.

In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.

Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.

Begin challenging your own assumptions.

I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.

Research your idea. See if there’s a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don’t know if there’s a need for it.

I played my best everyday. You never know when someone may be seeing you play for the first time.

I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.

I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.

I just want everyone to know I’m suing Ruben Studdard. He had his hand on my ass and he wouldn’t let go.

I don’t think I’m going to be an international sex symbol. I mean, I know I’m not going to be an international sex symbol.

I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.