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 came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race.

To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.

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.

I wanted to see her sad. Taste her tears. I wanted to know what she sounded like when she cried. In pain, in pleasure, in both.

Hurry, get on board, it's comin', listen to those rails a-thrumming all aboard. Get on the "A" train, soon you will be on Sugar Hill in Harlem.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.

Life is a solitude.

I can guarantee you one thing, we will never agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis.

One should leave the piano when Oscar comes in. This man is dangerous.

No government proposal more complicated than "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private" ever works.

Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.

And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.