You risk working with this director, you risk making this movie, you risk working with another actor you don't know. It makes your heart beat faster. And it keeps you interested.

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.

You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.

Happiness leaves such slender records

To see a friend who has suffered the loss of all things begin again with trust and love, gives us strength to continue on.

Only grace-large doses, frequently displayed, released-will restore the wounded.

Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.

I'm an island boy, so I love my reggae and soca music.

I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.

My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.

Speak from your mind and people will hear you with their mind. Speak from your heart and people will hear you with their heart.

Shamelessness is a wonderful part of the character.

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.