I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.

I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they're funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness.

You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.