Dancing came easy for me. Acting came hard.

I'd like to have a decade of my life back. I dropped into a void for almost a decade.

There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry... If you really knew what it was like for an hour, you wouldn't want anyone to go through it.

I was doing judo before anybody knew it existed in this country.

That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.

In order for your dreams to come true, you've got to stay awake.

I was born looking older... and I've been aging since I was a teenager.

Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow.

You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year... somewhere.

Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.

If I had my druthers, I would do only stage work.

We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch.

Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.

I've been married for 10 years and, you know, it's hard, you spruce it up and you go places. How do you spruce up anything? Artificially. You go places and do things.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered.

The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.

I've gone out of my way to not take baggage with me from film to film.

It's really scary when you have a moment of temporary sanity.

Visions of one powerful scene after another parade across his inner screen, each exploding with drama and meaning

A Christian minister is a person who in a peculiar sense is not his own; he is the servant of God, and therefore ought to be wholly devoted to Him.