Nothing beats a great smile.

When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.

When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back.

That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do.

My philosophy is whatever you do, you've got to invest in yourself. If you don't, there are a lot of people out there who will get the job because they're more prepared than you.

I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think in essence what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.

I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting "Heaven" it was truly guerrilla film-making.

I would think, as an actor, it's just much more fun to be the bad guy.

I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.

When you pick up a script and you can't stop reading it because it's a real page-turner, that's a good sign.

One of the crazy things about our job is that we get taught these insane skills that we could never use in real life.

Rule no man than yourself.

Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.

Your child’s sense of security is not grounded in how perfect you are, but in the quality of the relationship you have.

Whether good or bad, it was I that did the damage, and the wisest rule in life, note the aftermath and how to manage.

Events don’t make a person interesting. It’s who they are and what’s inside them that makes them interesting.

Meeting another human is always a sacred event.

The joy of being a broadcaster is, if you're still allowed to choose your own music.

Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.

What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.

I did want to mark the fact that it was the first African-American to win the Lead Actress category.I thought it was so progressive.