Well, I like to be kept on my toes. I look for a challenge. I don't like to recreate steps that I've already walked. I like to see if I can create something new.

I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.

When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

I think I was afraid of what I might say when I got onto someone's stage or in front of someone's camera.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

The reason why things work is because of love.

As much as we teach our kids, the process teaches us. If we're being diligent, we're learning from our strengths as parents, but also from the mistakes that we make.

New York is the greatest character actor ever. Any film that is shot in New York is elevated by the city.

You're a master on blues piano. The real deal.

The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate.

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don't take counsel of your fears.

I try to make it a rule not to meddle in other people's politics.

What I do know is that if we are born again, I will meet you in another life, and if there is a river, you will wait on the shores for me to come to you, so that we can cross together.

Dad's are the treasures of the world!

Everybody's got regrets. Everybody's made mistakes. Nobody's perfect.

That's all our team is about. If we stop people, we're the most athletic team in this whole tournament and we can get out and get easy buckets.

Perhaps we have more in common by virtue of our common humanity than we have differences by virtue of our religions.

I didn't change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.

I have always believed that I need a circumference of silence. As to what happens to when I composer, I really haven't the faintest idea.

But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone