There is no right in acting.

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

The last few years have been pretty hectic.

One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.

I always signed autographs when I could and always stayed and chatted with them when I could.

Getting old is not for sissies, kid.

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

But in order to be the thing you want to be, you have to work like a dog at the thing you love.

But I firmly believe that you can't be emotionally free until you are emotionally committed.

Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.

I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

You're something between a dream and a miracle.

If you give a writer a line, they'll take a paragraph…

Grit your teeth and smile. In the face of adversity, go. They don't deserve you.

You pick up a camera because something has been revealed to you in the landscape or in the human-scape. And you have no choice because it's a gift. And it's like, oh right, I better start doing this!

My mother, religious-negro, proud of Having waded through a storm, is, very obviously, A sturdy Black bridge that I Crossed over, on.

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

The true believer, no matter how rowdy and violent his acts, is basically an obedient and submissive person.

The creative process requires chaos before form emerges.

Its just I fell into a bunch of movies that kind of fit in my life. It made sense to do them in the 80s. Folks who know me think its hilarious.

There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable.