I Am An Artist, Art Has No

If You Get A Little Gassy, You've Got To Let It Go. So People Used To Say To Me, 'you're Like A Whoopee Cushion.'

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 Nine Years Old, Star Trek Came On, I Looked At It And I Went Screaming Through The House, 'come Here, Mum, Everybody, Come Quick, Come Quick, There's A Black Lady On Television And She Ain't No Maid!' I Knew Right Then And There I Could Be Anything I Wanted To Be.

All I Really Want To Do Is Just Keep Acting, And Some Of It Will Stink, And Some Of It Will Be Really Good, And Maybe When I'm 85 And Presenting An Oscar Like Bette Davis Did, I Can Look Back And Say, 'it Was Okay, I Did All Right.'

[on Writing To Alice Walker, Author Of The Color Purple:] I Told Her I Would Play A Venetian Blind, Dirt On The Floor, Anything.