I've been denied coverage two times in my life - and it's after I've been in a big successful rock band. And I've a lot of met people who've been denied coverage who don't have the resources to fight the insurance companies. And they shouldn't have to do that.
Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office.
It's not like television is now for women who have been put out to pasture. Television is for everybody.
My mom, whether it's right or wrong, she had dreams for me to have a certain life. It takes time to get used to that. But they've been really supportive, and they love me for exactly who I am.
The first role that I got on Broadway was supposedly for a white man. But I had some producers who fought for me and allowed me to come in.
There are big parts of my life that I don't share. I don't share myself eating dinner with my family. I don't talk about who I'm dating. That's private; that's me.
I'm coming to that realization that I'm going to be seen as a mom to someone, and it makes you think about your own parents. You know, who were they?
When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me.
There are two types of paparazzi. The ones who hide who get you with your mouth hanging wide open or jumping up and down like an idiot on the street. I much prefer them to the ones who come out and follow you.
It's very hard for me to photograph someone when I'm not attracted by who they are.
As an African-American, we stand on the shoulders of people who fought despite not seeing victories in their lifetime or even in their children's lifetime or even in their grandchildren's lifetime. So fatalism isn't really an option.
You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with.
Kids who don't have moms suffer a lifetime.
You can't test great advertising. You can only test the mediocre. Not that I don't care about demographics. You have to understand who you're going after.
There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can 'be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough' are not true. They are fairy tales.
I remember the Food Network when it was first starting out: Emeril Lagasse and all those people who helped make it when it was on a shoestring budget. It actually encouraged me to start cooking.
California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running.
Sure, just like there are bad lawyers, bad doctors and bad politicians, there are people who aren't cut out to be teachers. But by and large, the people who are called to be teachers are passionate about the profession.
U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.
I appreciate my brother, His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the U.A.E. and Ruler of Dubai, and the Council of Ministers, who face every morning challenges, but plan and remove all obstacles to score achievements.
I want people around me who call me out and hold me accountable.
I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service.
I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&M Records, and everything - James Taylor, Rita Coolidge, Carole King - I worked on all of that stuff.
I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.
I've always gone out with men who wanted a cook all the time.
I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.
A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.
I've been on jobs where there's that one actor who is just a miserable, miserable no-good, dirty bastard, and it just turns the whole process sour.
I'm the one who gave steroids to Pop art.
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
I'm the only member of my family who dared to move away from Birmingham - my brothers and sister are still here, along with my mom.
I think Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think that's the main difference.
I would like to thank all my tennis fans who were there from Day One when I was No. 1, through my stabbing, and my comeback.
I've never had hard feelings with any of my teammates who decided to leave or felt like it was best to leave.
In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.
I am not the kind of person who makes his bread and butter on how hyped I am. I am an actor, and I do my job.
