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.

After 'Breaking Bad,' people are very frightened of who I am. They back away from me on the street.

That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion.

Grace is the divine assistance that gives you advantage over those who are better than you.

My grandfather is the king, my Dad's the prince, I guess that makes me the butler.

You are responsible for the world that you live in.

I'm really just a regular guy who has had an incredibly blessed life.

She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence.

A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.

I don't take it lightly that I brought a life into this world. They're waiting for you every day, these sweet little angels. You have to have time for them to interact on a daily basis.

[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.

My dear boy, you are under a wrong impression. It is not a race, it is merely a means of getting crews to do long rows