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

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.

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.

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.

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

Her soul is Alive. And we are drawn to her.

The only thing more dangerous then your enemy knowing how powerful you are, is your enemy not knowing how powerful you are.

I believe it went like this—and stop me if I’m wrong, Mousey: ‘Listen, we may not be our own continent and everything, but we have a big country over in America too.

I want fame now, not after I'm dead.

I'm Noah, and you are the ship coasting along the banks and as long as you are my valentine I will sail between your eyes..

Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said This is my own my native land!

I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.

In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions.

This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.

It does look like a very good exercise. But what is the little white ball for?