Most Hollywood men are too vain and shallow for me.

I was drawn to acting because it was the one place that I found an emotional outlet.

I was always searching. I became a Buddhist in my twenties when I came to Los Angeles. I met a group of people who I really loved.

My mother was a feminist and a divorcee who worked. She was very smart.

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves nor half the evil they say of others.

There has never been a day when I have not been proud of you, I said to my Son though some days I'm louder about other stuff so it's easy to miss that.

There are a lot of very beautiful people in world. I'd love to tell you who my pin-ups are now, but I might meet them.

I think there are some players born to play ball.

My first concert isn't that cool or ironic. I wish it had been like, "My first concert was the Backstreet Boys," but the first concert I went to, I think, was this band called The Samples.

Whatever enjoyment I might have had at the time would disappear overnight like snow melting on a warm roof.

And I tried it and I felt, I guess I must have been pulled in by the red light of television and now I've been on TV since 1992.

In all fields black consciousness seeks to talk to the black man in a language that is his own

The best recreation is to do good.

I really do take more vacations than the president. You can quote me on that.