What helps me is yogic breathing, dropping my spiritual level where I am really, really clear that I am playing a character.

I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race.

To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.

I have from time to time been a double A or triple A personality. I'm not anymore. I'm more lenient on myself.

I love the smell of fried chicken.

I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I’m truly persuasive.

I have this vision that I'm really watching each one of my daughters start to become women, and mothers. And this is what's gonna save our planet.

Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.

You can never lead unless you follow.

There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.

I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it.

Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.

Leaders create a legacy daily.

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.

Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.

We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more.

If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time.

I’m not a prophet. I’m a destiny-changer. It’s all right to prophesy, but the best thing to do is change things, if you’ve got the power.