Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.
Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.
I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.
Be talented enough to make it and stupid enough to keep trying.
Some days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror.
I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.
Sarah Palin is to women what John Wayne Gacy was to birthday clowns.
I think Chelsea Handler is the funniest woman.
My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from.
I’ve tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.
A friend of mine had his own theatre company, and he jumped me in like I was in a gang. And once I came in, it was just that simple. For the first time in my life, I felt, 'This is a career, this is a life that I think I can grow old doing.' It was love at first sight. I loved being on stage and reading these plays. It was great.
I have a talent for missing the best and greatest parties.
My father was a doctor.
My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.
I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.
Dancing With the Stars' is so Middle America, and people take it so seriously.
To be known by the public, honestly. People come up and tell them how good I make them feel.
As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.
America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.
I never wanted to lose out on an acting job and wonder if I hadn't been trained enough.
I decided sitcoms weren't for me.
When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.
I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.
I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.
I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year.
