This was basically the first time I got to act in action scenes, with things blowing up all around me. It sounds corny, but I think every actor would like to - at least once in his or her career - play the person who saves the entire world.
We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.
Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.