Cancer is a disease that is mysterious, headstrong and makes its own rules. And mine, to this date, is incurable.

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.

Everyday is a good day, just some days are better

In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting - not ever.

I thought Marilyn Monroe was the most beautiful woman in the world and Elizabeth Taylor breathtaking. But when I see myself on the screen I say: 'Oh shoot! What are they talking about?'

I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.

Cancer is my own private war. The strain, the nausea, the fever take turns challenging my strength, my mind and my spirit.

Looking a certain way is a blessing and a curse.

I like it when you're under the ocean, and all you can feel is calm

I deeply believe in one's own positive will to overcome even the most daunting challenges.

When I was born, the doctor slit my throat to see if I could talk.

Black man cleans the streets but mustn't walk freely on the pavement

I'm 64 years old, and I've been acting now for 42 years. Only recently have I thought to myself, 'Hmmm, it may be interesting to start directing.'

We dress them [children] in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last belief we have, the belief in making them believe.

Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.

Violence is never random.

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.

I spend twelve hours a week - a little over 10% of my waking hours - playing the game. Now I am trying to figure out how to get by on less sleep in order to fit in a few more hands.

I am a dog person and not a cat person, definitely a dog person.