Charles S. Dutton Quotes

What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.

I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.

And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn't what this is.

You're 5 feet nothing, a hundred and nothing.

I don't even know if I can call myself a director.

This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.

I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.

I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.

I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school.

Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.

Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.