Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.

Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.

I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.

You either get better, or you don't progress.

If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.

The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.

I'm an artist at heart.

You and I must learn and understand the value of time and how to invest it if we must achieve anything of worth in our lifetime.

As a lawyer and a former prosecutor, I know the limits of the power and authority of the president. I know what is legal and what is not.

Anything less would not have been worthy of me. Anything more would not have been possible.

Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace.

Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.

I'd rather not throw the ball at all.

The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do.

He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble. from the Book of Proverbs

I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.

A negotiator should observe everything. You must be part Sherlock Holmes, part Sigmund Freud.