I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation.

I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race.

To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.

I have from time to time been a double A or triple A personality. I'm not anymore. I'm more lenient on myself.

I love the smell of fried chicken.

I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I’m truly persuasive.

I have this vision that I'm really watching each one of my daughters start to become women, and mothers. And this is what's gonna save our planet.

Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.

You can never lead unless you follow.

There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.

I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it.

There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.

It's as though a smile is ageless, or perhaps eternal, independent of the decay and collapse of the surrounding features.

The urge to draw near to the female silhouette resided deep in the ancient center of a man...

Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.

I think that in the end, the people are not fooled by promotion. They want to know that something works and is right.

Get money first; virtue comes after.

Like a domestic cat, purring on the sofa by day, but by night, a strutting queen, a natural killer, disdainful of her other life.

If not exactly raging against the dying of the light, I was at least a little cross with it.

I love being on sets with very seasoned directors as well as very new directors. Every time is a discovery process. You learn something new every time.

Only Zionists get to proclaim their fear of a brown planet while simultaneously maintaining a patina of liberal respectability.