“I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.”
“Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.”
“As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.”
“I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it.”
“If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.”
“But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.”
“I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.”
“Black history is American history.”
“You're going to relegate my history to a month.”
“Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.”
“Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.”
“There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.”
“Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.”
“Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.”
“It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.”
“People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.”
“When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.”
“Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.”
“I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.”
“I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.”
“I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in.”