Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like 'Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn't want the kids to use the Skateboard Park', or 'Stein is a pompous, rotund attorney, imposing to all.' It would be so freeing to get a script where my character is simply described as 'A Man.'

I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.

I have a secret aspiration to be considered for a part where it doesn't matter what you look like to play it.

We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives.

Cherish believes that God made her with a special purpose. Like any teenage girl, she has her insecurities, but for the most part she has a real healthy self-esteem.

Spirituality is the foundation of all my political work.

Torn' is hopeful. It's a book that meets you in your pain and shows you how to move forward with life and in your walk with God.

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.