I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to get work.

I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance.

The best entertainment speaks to the human condition in an honest way.

I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done.

I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against - I have to try to make roles happen for me that aren't written black.

I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months.

When we find successful people in our field, learn from their experience and understand some important things more specifically

The only rich women who ever interested me, the ones who were ever my friends, were adventuresses---people who were total self-creations.

After all, why be right when you can be happy.

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

I was an international studies major.

No matter whether "I" feels victorious or defeated, elated or discouraged, these are mere phantoms compared to consciousness itself.

A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.

Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.