I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul

My workout is my meditation.

The Monmouth Coffee Shop is the best place in London

I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees, and rain, and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area.

To quote Agent Cooper, 'I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.'

Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You've really got to know the impact of what you're wearing on the character you're playing

For the time it takes to make the film, you are treated like a cosseted pet. Then the process is over, and you're hung out to dry. It's like being a mink.

Hollywood is not good when it comes to age

I really fight for my privacy.

The nice thing about New York is that you're finally able to wear those winter clothes that have been sitting in your closet in mothballs

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer

I felt a pull toward her even before I actually spotted her in her car and I’m glad I didn’t resist.

half truths equal whole lies

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.

By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the labor or the property of the weak.

good call. A second drag and your next stop's the wastepaper basket - and not to toss your kleenex, true.

No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject.

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

Let an audience be able to find it themselves without spoonfeeding it.

The great thing in hitting is, not to be half-hearted about it; but when you make up your mind to hit, to do it as if the whole match depended upon that particular stroke.