I have no regrets, except perhaps one: I should have tried harder to be a better actor.

My first business deal was with my mother. I invested in chickens. I sold the eggs to my mother.

People say I'm a one-note actor, but the way I figure it, those other guys are just looking for that one right note.

After 87 pictures in 47 years, I knew when to quit.

This world's divided into two kinds of people: the hunter and the hunted. Luckily I'm the hunter. Nothing can change that.

I never pretended to be a great actor.

I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough.

Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero.

Don’t let the enemy try to keep you bound with fear. The devil is a liar. Stay in faith and trust the process. Be still, God has a plan!

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.

The most reliable ways to make oneself miserable are attempting to change people and not attempting to change circumstances.

A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work.

Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.

How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!

Now you may do it badly, you may do it well, some people like you, some people hate you, all the rest of it - but you have got a real motivating life purpose. [on being Prime Minister

I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice.