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

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

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 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.

True friendship doesn't include jealousy.

Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.

He could not shake the feeling - reportedly common among ghosts - that it was not he but those he haunted whose lives were devoid of matter, sense, future.

Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.

I don't care who the president is - it isn't just all about who's black or who's white or who's Republican or Democrat, it's about who is for the betterment of people, period.

I can't swim. I can't drive, either. I was going to learn to drive but then I thought, well, what if I crash into a lake?

China tennis - we're getting bigger and bigger.

The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.

Heroes, classical heroes have the look of eagles, too. They're looking beyond the immediate problem and into the future.

I think when we engage in language we are engaging in something that is specifically and primally human.