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

“Othello is about many different kinds of love: it’s about the light, beautiful side of love, and it’s about the twisted, darker side of love, and it’s about how, if you flip the emotional coin, love can make you do terrible things. (James Earl Jones)”

“One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.”

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

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

“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.”

“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 know it affected me when I saw certain actors growing up. I had a drama teacher that would take us to see plays in New York, and it was seeing James Earl Jones and Raul Julia - I mean, this guy comes from the place my mother comes from. He's doing Shakespeare right now, and it doesn't seem to matter that he has an accent.”