"My parents began their married life together in a Bronx tenement before later relocating to Manhattan's East Side. Th…"

"The truth is, I've always been quietly proud of my real age. Why wouldn't I want to celebrate every crease in my brow…"

"…it happened because I learned that I could speak through other people. I was a very shy child. I was an observer. I …"

"…I was doing a promotion for Sounder. And after the film was completed, this journalist said that he discovered a bit…"

"I wish people knew the Miles Davis that I knew. Really. Because you can walk into a bookstore and you see reams of bo…"

"Challenges make you discover things about yourself you never really knew. They are what make the instrument stretch w…"

"Just stick with it. Just stick with it. There's always a reason why you keep going in the direction you chose to go in."

"To thine on self be true." "Do that, and you’ll have no regrets."

"I remember when we were filming last year, someone was like, 'Are you guys ready for your lives to change?' And we we…"

"She's bolder than I am, and she's more of a risk taker, and that was something I thought would be a challenge. But I …"