I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself..

I don't act to live. I live to act..

Never be shamed of being Afrikan.

I never dreamed I would do Westerns..

I've never not been famous..

When we face the worst that can happen in any situation, we grow. When circumstances are at their worst, we can find our best..

No matter the circumstances that you may be going through, just push through it..

When you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu, my friend Lee Saunders has said, and he is correct..

I have to change to stay the same..

You live day by day. You can't build your life..

I is what I is, and I'm not changing..

The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema..

I have seen myself backward..

The surest sign of fitness is success..

When I practiced, I practiced to get it right..

Where you stop is where you stop. There is always more of God..

You all have the potential to be what you wanna be..

There's nothing wrong with being an agitator..

The something of somewhere is mostly just the nothing of nowhere..

When we open ourselves you yourself to me and I myself to you, when we submerge you into me and I into you when we vanish into me you and into you I ….

Obviously, there's a million things we're allowed to say on late-night cable that you're not allowed to say on a prime time broadcast..