When accepting or preparing for a role, fear is the motivating factor.

Folks can believe what they like but eventually a man's got to declare if he's going to do what is right.

I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.

Nothing misleads people like the truth.

I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was always against acting as a profession. I didn't like the monetary fluctuations I saw.

Football? Forget it. I didn't have that thing inside me where I wanted to smash against somebody and watch them break. I was too sensitive for that and disliked being that sensitive.

I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes.

It's probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things.

Fear - there's always fear. You re-create yourself in every movie, don't you?

My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness.

You might be an interested guy, an interested reported then I get to know you and then I know you're this also and you're this also and you may hide it in a certain way. That's what I love.

A $3 Cup of Coffee is Worth a Book.

I am here

I exhort you to be of good cheer.

The happiest people are the ones who follow their own dreams most closely.

I was born black, I attended all Negro schools including college, I grew up in the segregated South during Jim Crow. If anybody knows a racist, I do. Pat Buchanan ain't no racist.

As thy days, so shall thy strength be.

Holy borrowing bibliophile, let's book!

I can see that now. I can see everything once it’s already happened — I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand.

If you only ever heard Lady Gaga, she's the most boring singer in the world.