Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

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.

When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.