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1. “I don't want to bore myself. I just want to have a good time and try to make a difference here and there. And, you know, cop to it when you're wrong and cop to it when you're right, you know, and stand up and say, I don't think this is okay. And sometimes, as I said, you know, you're right in the wind and the spray is blowing back on you. But sometimes people say, you know what? I've been thinking about this and it's not right. I'm going to stand with you. And that's great. Because then we all evolve and make one step forward.”

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2. “And now, you know, many people say they're making them. And I say, okay, but Keith Beauchamp, who is the guy that did the documentary and got the case reopened, wrote the script. And, you know, people say, oh, this is so amazing. But, you know, people didn't want to make it. So you find other things to do. And I just don't want to be... I don't want to be”

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3. “Doing lots of other stuff, you know, and when there's time for me to make a movie, I was trying to direct a film and we just could not get the money we needed on Emmett Till.”

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4. “Yeah, you know, I miss it, but I'm also nobody's checking for me. You know, it's not my turn right now. And I'm lucky enough to have a turn in another place. So, you know, we're riding, I'm making sweaters for, you know, holidays. I'm doing, I have a great menstrual line of medical, of a product that contains medical marijuana called whoopi and maya that I like a lot because, you know, people have cramps and no one will talk about it. And so I thought this was a good way for me to get people to understand that medical marijuana is a very good way to go in terms of alternative medicine and better ways to maybe treat the environment. If you've grown tobacco, maybe you want to grow hemp.”

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5. “Well, I mean, some people can. I've tried, it doesn't work well for me. It's not my favorite thing. And I don't carry it off well. But listen, I have a really interesting career, interesting life. I do what I want to do. I fight battles all the time. Half the time I do a show every day. Half the time the entire country, half of the country hates you, and half of the country is okay with you.”

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6. “But don't I don't know if everybody struggles with it, but I think most people do. I think most people come to a place where they think, is it worth it for me? Am I worth... Going on, and sometimes you can rescue yourself, sometimes somebody comes in and they get you. I think most people struggle with all these things. But I also”

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7. “I don't think. And Robin might have had depression? But I do think that whatever medication he was dealing with or taking did not serve him well. But when I think of Robin, Think of his love of family. I think of all the stuff that he gave and how He may have been wrestling with whatever you read different tabloids, they say, well, he had this, he had this, he had this, he had this. I don't know what he had. I don't know that that was something that was in his mind to do. But I do know that That would not have been the way that the man I know would have gone. You know what I mean? So I talked”

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8. “No, you know what? And I won't say that his life ended tragically. It ended too soon. But Robin was. Unlike anybody else, his mind worked at amazing speeds, but he was incredibly quiet as well. You know, the thing that Billy and Robert and I... Was the fact that we knew each other. You know, and I'd known Robin a long time, but we knew each other and looked out so that Robin didn't have to be on with us, you know. Other people came around, you know, they expected him to be robbing Williams than he was. Robin, I think that Billy and I knew was a very different robin. He's like a normal guy like us, except faster, you know.”

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9. “Well, I thought she was a brilliant character. As it turns out, she bothered a lot of people, particularly men did not like her and felt that Alice Walker's book did not represent black men the way they felt that they should be represented. The NAACP didn't. Like our movie because they were mad that Stephen directed it. So those were all the challenges. There were a couple of times where I sat in a set and I looked over and I thought, wow, I am sitting on the set of a Stevenspielberg movie and start laughing way down inside. Or Oprah and I looking at each other going, oh my God. You know, because there we were, brand new kids, and we were doing what we did. And it... It was a great experience.”

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10. “On the streets, and none of those worked, so he couldn't call anybody. But he gets acclimated into being in Oakland and he sports a Jerry curl, which was a style of hair that looked like it was dripping, and he'd have on the John Travolta suit, the suit with the big shoes. And so he's walking around. He's running prostitutes out of his. And so when his people come to get him, he shoots them all up. Because he doesn't recognize them, because he's acclimated and forgotten his base, where he comes from.”

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11. “I said because it's about ET, I call it Blet. And what would happen, you know, in 1980, you know, how long had I been doing it? So 1981, what would have happened if ET had landed in Oakland, which was, you know, a tough city there? So he says, okay, you have to do it. So I was like, okay, but I'm telling you, you might not like this as much as other stuff. And the story basically is these kids find bleat and they take him home to the projects. He can't phone home because, you know, in those days you had.”

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12. “Yes, I don't tell him that yet. But I say, listen, I do lots of different stuff to you. What do you want? He said, Well, do whatever you think you would like to do. So I said, okay. And they said to me, the agents and manager said, do not do Bleed. Is sacred to Stephen. Do not do Bl. So now I'm backstage and there's curtains in my peak and I see Michael Jackson and I see Quincy Jones and I see Ashford and Simpson. I see Steven Spielberg. I see all kinds of people and I'm thinking, oh, this is really bizarre. Then I come out and... And have a great time. And someone says more. I said well I was asked not to do. More. And Stevenson, well.”

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13. “And so when I finish the run, I went to Los Angeles before I went back to Berkeley. I go in to meet Stephen, and I'm just looking at him. And I was thinking, wow, I'm at Amblin. This is Amblin. This is where ET lived. This is where all these things happen. And he says, so. I want you to do your show if you wouldn't mind and break in our little theater here at Ambler. I was like, no problem. I'm really good for this. And then I tell him how much I love ET.”

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14. “Well, no, so I did the show on Broadway and then in the interim I got a manager and an agent. And the manager, whose name was Sandy Gallon, said, Steven Spielberg wants to see you when you go back west. And I'm thinking, oh yeah, I'm going to be in, you know. Indiana Jones, man. I'm gonna be running right next to End I wasn't sure why. He wanted to just see me, but I knew I had some time, and so I kept doing my show. Now, in the interim of all of this, Mike Nichols is literally taking me places and I'm meeting literally my heroes, Paul Simon, you know, who I got to be friends with and Carl Reiner, who I got to be friends with and Warren Beatty, and just name them and I got to meet them. I was thinking, boy, this is fun. And my mom, I got to have her treated like. A platinum queen, you know, because she was the mother of the hot new thing.”

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15. “What happened there? I said, and I wanted to tell people, but nobody wants a travelogue and I had to figure out the best way to... Explain to people why I was so moved, and I thought, well, I'll put it in the mouth of a junkie who's a highly educated guy or girl, no one's sure what Fontaine. Who can speak to lots of different aspects of what I was feeling. And so I was able to. Sort of talk about everything from being on the flight”

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16. “He was weeping and he said, I don't know whether you know this. And, you know, maybe you don't know. Mike had a very distinctive way of speaking, so he'd say. I don't know if you're aware But I was on the last boat out of Germany to America. And my mother, who was aware of all that information, said, yes, I read that. I don't know if Karen knows it, but I'm aware of it. And he said, what made you write this? I said, well, it was such an extraordinary experience to be in the Ann Frank house and to see Shelly Winters Oscar. To go upstairs and know.”

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17. “So I did, and there he was, and he was very moved by a piece I did about being in Amsterdam and going to the Anne Frank House.”

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18. “I'm not scarring, but I'm aware in case. And I don't. Like nothing is going. Like when I saw Bett Midler, I knew it was Bet Midler because I had always adored her. I knew, and Barbara Barry, who's wonderful actress who made a movie about an interracial relationship called One Potato, Two Potato, was in the audience one night. And I was such a fan of hers. I knew her instantly So the show was done. It's really great. I go backstage. I say ma. She says, Did you see him? I was like. I didn't. Who is it? How could you miss him? I was like, who is it? She said, it's Mike Nichols. I said, the graduate Mike Nichols? He's like, yes, he was sitting right over there. And then I hear. I opened her door open. I was, oh shit, and I closed the door. And then my mother said, You might want to open again. You might want to just”

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19. “And Mike Nichols, here's what happened. And my mother comes. She says I normally don't do this with you, right? I said, I don't know what I'm saying write to her. She said, Well, I just have to tell you there's somebody really amazing in the audience. Bye. I said, had she left? So I go out and I think, okay, somebody scouting.”

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20. “And all I want to do is talk to them about all the movies that they make because, oh my God, you don't know how much I love your work and blah, blah, blah, blah.”

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21. “From the New York Times And wrote the most extraordinary thing. That review, I think it was on like a Wednesday by Friday night, we were sold out downtown. And to me, it was like, oh, oh, oh, because suddenly. People are really actors that I'd always admire were coming to my show.”

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22. “Waiting at my mom's house in the project is this purple letter from Alice Walker that basically says, listen, I know all about you. I go see your shows all the time. I'm up in the Bay Area. It's like, oh, oh. And I've passed your stuff on. It's like, oh, okay, cool. And then I start doing my shows. And, you know, we got four people come and then maybe two. Because, you know, nobody knew what was going on. And then a man named Mel Gusau came to the show.”

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23. “Yes, it was. It was stunning, really, because, let's see, Barbara Barry came to see me. Bet Middler came to see me. I was doing a piece at DTW here in New York. And it was all about monologues. And it was great to get the invitation to come because I got to spend time with my mom again. I came back home and blah blah blah. And I had just read with my daughter. Or heard Alice Walker read The Color Purple. So before I left to come to do this little tour, I wrote her a letter that basically said this is one of the greatest things I've ever heard and if they ever make a movie of it, here's all my resumes, you know. So I get to New York.”

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24. “Until you get out into the bigger world. No one knew then were black people in England until downtown Julie Brown. I knew cuz I'd been over there. It's like you have an English accent. People would be like, okay, explain to me the shock of yours, I'm American. You all over here can go to different countries in one fell swoop. We get Canada. We love Canada, but it's not the same.”

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25. “Can you work with them? Because we don't get a lot of time to play. Sure. So you go and you. You'd improv with people. You'd write strange sound poems with him. And it was the greatest thing that could have ever happened. Europe, for me, was the greatest thing that could happen because I'd never been. Had no idea. And my God, when you saw, you know, I went to Scotland. What I was doing, I might have been doing Can't remember actually, but I ordered food, Chinese food. And two Chinese kids came and And when I ask them what I owed them, they had Scottish accents. And I was stunned. I was like, you have to talk to me. Because, of course. If you grew up there You'd have the accent. So you realize that your insular”

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26. “Well, we went back and forth a lot. So here's what used to happen. People would get smuggled out and people would get smuggled in, and you would spend time with a particular group, and they would get flown to the US, and they'd spend time with your group. And so to be able to go first to Germany and find out that I was the Schwarzscheuspiele, which is the black storyteller. And someone says, well, we want you to work with this group of actors. You know, you do these workshops and you do these plays. And somebody says, well, we got some folks that, you know, we just wanted to just come and play with us. So you go and you play and you start talking. And they said, well, just come through here. Come through here and spend some time with us. And then you realize, oh, there's a wall here. Did I just go through the wall? They're like,”

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27. “Whose theater company was coming through San Diego to do stuff. And I just liked what they did. And he said, well, we're from San Francisco. We're up there. And, you know, you should come up and, you know, come work with us. And it was like. Maybe I try that. So I do because I figured if I could go across the country, I could go.”

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28. “I come from mimics. My mom and her cousin would get together and they could mimic anybody. They'd be doing accents. So you wanted to play with you. But, you know, the adults never want you to play with them. But it was going into my head. And I had an on to mimicked and my mother was a lover of film, loved movies and television and performance. And so it was always in my zeitgeist. No one ever said I couldn't do it. And so... When I got to San Diego, I was working with lots of different people. Had a partner called Don Gregwitz, and we Doing two person work sketches. And that was gray. And then... Met another guy years later.”

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29. “No, that was not the thinking. The thinking was, oh, listen, I want to do this more. How can I do this more than I've been doing it? Well, I can talk to these folks at the rep, but I'm in an improv company and I'm having some fun with this. But maybe I can create. Monologues for myself that make it look like I'm really good. Yeah, that's what I'll do. And so that's what I started to do.”

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30. “Comedy didn't come till much later. I was always an actor. I was always a person who liked the theater and, you know, had some guild theater was always. So for me, it was never, it was never... I liked it. And then I met other actors who were like, yeah, I got a kid or let's, you know, put the kids together and let's do these scenes.”

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31. “I went to California. Someone said, I have a kid, your child's age. Would you come and be the nanny? And I was like, sure. California? It's like, yeah. So we drove and stopped in Lubbock, Texas at the Hayloft Dinner Theater where they performed and then drove to San Diego. And that was sort of life-shifting. Warm air. All the time, lush plants, and you could thrive out there. So that's what I did and I got in, because my friend Tavis, who I traveled with, was part of the CD. Oh, yeah Became part of the San Diego Repertory Theater. And then I stayed there for a while and sort of watched my kid grow and go to school.”

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32. “Well, I don't do it anymore. So it didn't work that well. You know, I did what most kids do. In the 50s, people drank beer and they did stuff like, I did all the same stuff. Yeah, I did all the same stuff. I don't like beer.”

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33. “At the same time, you did. Oh my goodness, Central Park. You know, you had the Schaefer Music Festival in the summertime and you could gather with people in the park and hear poetry being spouted. There was change happening. There were yippies marching against the war and marching against capitalism. There were all kinds of conversations happening. And there were all kinds of drugs out there. Know”

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34. “Well, she said to me, listen, if you're not going to go to school, then I need to know where you are and what you're doing. So let's see what's available in New York. Now, you know you used to be able to go to lectures here or you could do that all for a quarter or a nickel or whatever. You know, and so each day I would have to come and say, This is what I did today. You know, I wasn't hanging out on the corner. Now, sometimes I was hanging out on the corner, but not always.”

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35. “Well, I'm dyslexic. And there wasn't really a word for it. So, you know, people would say, well, you know, you always think teenagers or young kids are not trying or applying themselves. And so that's what grown-ups would say, you're just not applying yourself. No, this looks weird to me, you know. And so it took a little while.”

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36. “Yeah, you're making it deeper than it was. It's just like you could be anything. You could be anything. You could be a knight. You could be a dancing frog. You could be a dancing princess. You could pretend to know how to do lots of different things. And that seemed like a fun thing to me.”

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37. “I just liked it. You could pretend to be other people from other places. You could be from the moon. You could be a fairy tale character. You could be anything. I didn't know because my mom never explained to me that there was a difference in me. I always thought I was just a New Yorker. I knew I was a Negro, but that didn't seem to be a problem. I knew Negroes and I knew Caucasians and I knew Asian people. So those were sort of names that didn't have anything to do with who we were. So wait until I got older that people said, oh, you know, you're probably not going to be able to do things like that because, you know, you're black. Oh.”

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38. “She wasn't like that. She dressed differently. And she's like, going to the movies, I don't want to go with you dressed like that. Well, I'm not changing, you know? And so we went back and forth, back and forth. And so my friend said, okay, whatever. So I said to my mom, am I wrong? Should I have changed my clothes? And she said, do you think you were wrong? I said, well, no, I don't think I was wrong. I'm clean. I don't see any reason why I should change. She said, well, then you shouldn't change. I said, but she's mad at me. And my mother said, listen, if you're going to insist on being an individual, people are going to be mad at you because you're not flowing the way everyone else is flowing. And if you can handle that. If you can handle that, Life should be quite interesting”

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39. “Well, I mean, she didn't preach it. She was really clear about it. So I had an experience with a friend of mine where she and I had a difference of opinion of what we should be doing, probably in 1415, going to the movies. And my friend wanted me to change my clothes because, you know, I had big afro, big old hippie clothes and just, you know.”

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40. “In the projects, I lived in the Chelsea projects and I was very lucky to be raised by a fairly strange and wonderful woman who had another child, and my brother and I and my mom. lived and grew in the projects and we knew smatterings of different languages because of course there are lots of immigrants coming into Tel Sa. And so you had to be able to say hello Mrs. So-and-so is so-and-so home may I use the bathroom you had to be able to say this in various languages depending on who you were talking to”

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41. “You know, and so I think it's important. But, you know, we'll see what happens, man. This is one of those kind of fluid situations where today it's great, but tomorrow, who knows what's going to happen? Because every four seconds somebody new is...”

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42. “You know, I. Is there, you know. Listen, this is the first time where I can't wrap my mind around this and that people felt the need to put this in. So yeah, I know people don't like that I don't do it. I'm fine with that. There's lots of stuff I do people don't like. You know, I can live with it. But I do, you know, you asked me earlier about Al Franken. And so I think to myself, well, Al Franken is a lot of people have lost their gifts. This one is still sitting there. So for me, all these women's groups need to be raising money for these women's defense fund. So that they can go on and do what they need to do. Because then it seems to be no ethics committee for how.”

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43. “Well, yeah, but, you know, we still have so much to do right now. I mean, we still have 16 women who are accusing the man in charge. And I'm hoping that the Me Too movement and...”

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44. “And there's a lot of fear. I mean, there's fear anytime someone in power abuses it. It's scary for the person who's being abused. And that's why for me, until women said, I will stand with you, I will stand next to you, and we will scream together so that you don't feel like you're out there alone. Nothing was going to change. And until you made it dangerous to do.”

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45. “Can't prove it. You might not want to say it. That's kind of what people did to you. They said, listen, you'll never be able to prove that it was him.”

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46. “We have to walk into it and say, hey, you're not allowed to say stuff like that. You're not allowed to say stuff like that. And if you do, these 18 women are going to come up to your office and we're going to dangle you out the window.”

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47. “I think it's listen there's an ethics committee. Make them deal with the ethics committee. That's what they're there for. But, you know, listen, that horse is out of the barn now. That horse is out of the barn. And so women are saying, look, we're not taking it anymore. So now we are going to go around the long way. Going to go around the long way. And we'll come to the place where we say, okay, case by case, what's happening here? Because everyone is now listening, you know. So, you know, I'm a moderate kind of person. And I don't mind taking the time to build a case that puts you away for life. And so I feel like in order to maintain and change the system, as we know it,”

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48. “You know, their lives were ruined. Their lives were ruined. A man took his life into Tawana Broadley story. And, you know, the Central Park Five spent all that time behind bars and still didn't get an apology. So I don't want that. I don't want just anybody to be able to say you're going to go, you're going down. I want us, and I think people get it now. They understand it now. I want us to be able to say, no, no, we got you. And here's how we got you.”

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49. “Well, let's be clear. I had questions. I grew up during Tijuana Brawley. I remember the Duke Lacrosse team. I remember the Central Park Five. I had questions because I feel you should have to answer them so that we know that when we get whoever it is, we can put them under the jail. But if you leave speculation open. There's a good chance nothing will happen. So I said, I have questions, and apparently people didn't understand it because people.”

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50. “Women said, you know what? I don't, this is not funny to me. This is not funny to me. These are scary things for me, you know, because you as a man, you're never going to have women's issues. You're never going to have to make the hard decision to decide whether or not to bring a child into fruition. You will never have to make that decision. So you're not funny to me, you know? I decided to make sure I got out there and said, you know, hey, listen, we have a lot to do, but we are doing a lot. People are saying women in particular are saying, you know what? I just don't want to do it like this anymore.”

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