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I think I would have had trouble living with someone who didn't know what it was like to be an actor.

I wouldn't be the same actor if I couldn't do theater.

There was no saying I could ever step in and do what John does, because it'd be really hard to be John Williams.

I didn't think I'd ever be an actor.

I would have given up acting in a minute. I didn't like how it set me apart from other people.

So I started to relax and would work on my act eight hours a day, sitting at a desk writing at my grandmother's house, and I would put on Richard Pryor Live on Long Beach and would play it like a loop and think and write.

I would've been a really big silent movie star.

I didn't know if I could act, but I knew I could be a great ballet dancer, and Balanchine put out the carpet for me.

I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke.