When I perform on stage, you have to remember my performance or buy another ticket to the party! In television and film, you can see it over and over again.

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 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.

Short answer 'No, ' Long answer 'Yes, ' with a 'But

Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got

I have a friend of mine who does me on his answering machine, and when I call him, I answer. It's pretty strange.

Just because it doesn't work out for you, doesn't mean that it's not wonderful for someone else.

The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There is no maybe. All the maybes should go in the trash.

When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

If a product costs $10,000 or $20,000 it has limited use. This is what the first computers cost! Only when almost everyone is able to afford it will it be a real thing.

But you must be patient and careful; nor should you expect to become an accomplished archer without long and severe training.

Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.