I was struggling with drugs, I had a lot on my plate, and you know, I was using unhealthy ways to kind of self-medicate and deal with a lot of heavy duty stuff in my life.

I try to carve my own way so the actors who come after me will say, "I want to do it like Columbus did it."

With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

The point of acting is to hide yourself and get lost in character. To play the same character in eighteen movies would be defeating the purpose I believe so I try to keep a little bit of diversity.

I want to play Martin Luther King. I want to tell the real story, his demons, his struggles as a man, not just as a hero but fallible, I want to show that side.

I'm a silly guy, I love wit and cynicism and sarcasm.

I don't want to do action that doesn't mean anything. Everything I do I want to have character development and three-dimensional characters, fallible humans, and this is definitely one of them.

I can say with full sincerity that I am happy. I'm happy because I'm doing what I love and I'm not selling out. And I can sleep at night because I'm at peace with it.

Ready when you are.

They're just opinions, what people say about you. None of that stuff's true. The only thing that matters is what you think of yourself.

I belong to the Kingdom of God, that's my Country! I'm from Space City, that's my City! I'm from the City that hath foundations, whose Builder and Maker is God!

You think you are somebody and that is where the problem begins. You're really not somebody, you're everybody. You objectify yourself into thinking that you are a particular state of being.

One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you're too tired.

Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.

For every dream of yours that you make come true, you'll pay the price in heartbreak.

There's enough for everyone. If you believe it, if you can see it, if you act from it, it'll show up for you. That's the truth.

Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.

Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection.