It's the sad fact of how race still works in our country. We find that over and over again.

I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic.

I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.

My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.

To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.

Now they had to sit in separate places and sometimes they'd even have to sit outside and look through the windows. But they did worship together.

In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us."

I really do think that every time you play a role well, you are in danger of being identified with that role until the next big thing comes along.

I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work.

Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific.

I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.

What is the ROI (return on investment) of your suffering?

When you find her, you will have the answers you need.

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.

Life's too short for a funeral.

Spreading an idea is hard work.

There's an old saying that the government is your partner from birth, but they don't get to come to all the meetings.

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.

I think when you're on a show that takes place in N.Y.C. but film it in L.A. there is just a vibe that feels wrong.

‎"Is it possible to both want and not want something at the same time? For desire to ride with fear?