If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it’s a good thing to turn around and make it work for others.
There’s an exercise we do where someone is sat behind you and you’re asked to close your eyes and fall backwards. That’s acting.
The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.
Very often, you know, you stop walking because you say, ‘Well, I’m tired of climbing this hill. I’m never going to get to the top.’ And you’re only two steps from the top.
I just wanted to be an actor. It’s better to be well-rounded.
In my career? Me. I’m the boss. I’m the end all and be all. I’m the alpha and omega in that.
And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It’s all fabulous.
I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
I remember saying to my agent, “Listen, everybody’s going out to Hollywood and making movies. I think I ought to go out there.” And his advice to me was, “I wouldn’t do that if I were you. If they want you in Hollywood, they’ll send you.” And sure enough, they did.
Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it.
I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.
What do I want to do? Acting wise? Well, there’s a western that I want to do. There’s a lot of producing that I want to do, projects that I have stacked up that are in my office that I’d like to get done.
But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.
Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet.
Never give up the ganja.
Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what’s going to happen.
It’s what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That’s all and that’s the hardest thing.
Actors cannot work against each other. It’s totally impossible.
My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don’t get it, I can’t do it.
I was 22 before I took my first dance class. I had never been athletic, so I was very stiff; I still am. I think what I got mostly from dance was carriage.