I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against - I have to try to make roles happen for me that aren't written black.

I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance.

The best entertainment speaks to the human condition in an honest way.

I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to get work.

I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done.

I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth clarity of thought to old age.

My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did.

Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.

It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).

The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.

Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it