One, I had never worked with John Woo before and I wanted to see what that was like, and two, Ben Affleck is a friend, so it would be fun to work with him again.

James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.

I think people believe that I give ant aura of someone who has both feet on the ground.

If there's no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career.

I think it talks about the fact that there are black people in the world who have tremendous amount of talents and have no channel through which they can those talents.

I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do.

I think it talks about that there needs to be some proactive attack against drugs infiltrating our culture.

When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

If you have the skill, then you can move as you age.

There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done.

We were so happy.

the best part waspulling down theshadesstuffing the doorbellwith ragsputting the phonein therefrigeratorand going to bedfor 3 or 4days. and the next bestpartwasnobody evermissedme.

I had every reason to quit, but you were the reason I wanted it all again.

The sensation I had experienced vanished like smoke from a snuffed candlem, leaving behind wisps of nameless longing.

Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers.

I've never played a character that is just beautiful, but sometimes you can read scripts that sound so shallow, like women are objects. I've never done something like that, though.

Whatever the country, whatever the culture, whatever the time, when you become a big enough organization, you start to collapse and slow down.

The thing that I love most about being on stage is making people happy...It's my job to do that, and I enjoy it.

God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.

Giving a politician access to your wallet is like giving a dog access to your refrigerator.