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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

I don't like being treated differently.

I always have tried to treat people with respect, the way I want to be treated.

Nobody should be treated any type of way because of their color, their race, their gender, their socioeconomic status. We're all human.

I grew up loving women and without misogyny, rancour or prejudice, totally loved and loving. And no matter what has happened since, I don't think I have treated women in my life very badly.

I was never treated differently. I never felt like I was lesser or I was discriminated against. I've only experienced that after I became an actor.

I've been strongly opposed to racial discrimination and anything like that my whole life. Maybe it's thanks to my parents and where I grew up and that sort of thing, but particularly with gay and lesbian citizens, I've seen that people can be cruel, and it's very distressing.

I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent.

Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever - it struck a nerve.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.