And then, when I eventually got cast in "Tootsie," as my first role, I overheard my mom speaking to one of her friends who was overwhelmed by my luck and exuberant over my opportunity, as was I. My mom's response: "Well... she studied acting".
At first my response was, well, Eeek!
"The coaches were saying, 'How can you get better?' and my response was: 'Well, I'm doing it legally.
When one of my colleagues asked whether I was going to give my son an "American name," my response was: "Well, he is an American by birth, and hence his name is an American name by my definition".
I can't recall exactly what we were dealing with, but I remember that my response was, "Well, I think we need to get some more information and we need to talk to these people".
But at the end of the day, when folks inside of Sun come to me and say, a lawyer wouldn't let me do X or Y or Z, my response is, well, then why don't I move headcount under the lawyer, because who's making the decision here — the lawyer or the businessperson?
MARCH 13 "There are some people who will say, 'I'm not going to vote for another black guy because this one didn't work out.' And my response is, 'Well, what about those 43 white guys you put in there?
"I would probably be doing that still if my wife hadn't said to me one day, out of the blue, 'What are your ambitions?' She'd not noticed me being unhappy or unfulfilled, but almost out of nowhere my response was, 'Well I'd quite like to be a singer,' although the idea that you could earn a living from it was kind of new to me".
