I’ve always been a fan of or desired to or responded to variety. I like variety in life, so variety in work is a must.
It seems to me that I never grow unless I’m actually working with other actors who have shed whatever shell it is that keeps them insulated from each other.
And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they’re going to go and see the story you’re in.
When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I’d discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.
Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.
I seldom get into the mood of the story. It’s acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don’t take anything away from it.
I am going to stop calling you a white man and I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.
When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God’s gift to the theater.
Every job’s a challenge. The challenge is to do it and make it look right, like you belong there – wherever that is.
There’s no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.
Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.
Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.
My roots were pretty far removed from high income. It’s interesting to be back there at the level of income I have now, at this stage in my life.
The accident was a horrible thing – but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It’s a happy irony if there is such a thing. I’m proud to have known him.
I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don’t believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.
As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.
Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve – a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind.
I’m not one who can write out a speech and remember all the names of the people that you need to thank because you need to thank all of those people.
As long as you feel like a victim, you are one.
I don’t think you’re going to get nominated every time you jump out of the box.