We got some devastating reviews on Animal House at the start.
I took a Groundlings class in my 20s, and I was terrible. They didn't even pass me to the next level.
Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies
I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want. The thing is, I do identify with being black, and if people don't identify me that way that's their issue. I’m happy to challenge people's understanding of what it looks like to be biracial, because guess what? In the next 50 years, people will start looking more and more like me.
I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.
I did a lot of theater in school. I thought maybe I wanted to go to law school or be a judge or a politician. And then I just kind of got smitten by the process of rehearsal and working with other actors and those kinds of challenges. And then comedy.
Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.
. . . That would be like stepping in front of a moving train and saying, 'Hey, honey, come stand next to me. '" I hopped off the wall and stood next to him. "Anytime. " He just looked at me. "I've never killed a train before. It might be fun to try.
The New York Times is the worst newspaper in the world and it's extremely vicious to artists.
There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.
It's not about how smart you are. It's about your values.