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

Never be shamed of being Afrikan.

I never dreamed I would do Westerns..

Hopefully, there isn't any adjustment at all in terms of what I am doing and what I'm preparing. Obviously, there's going to be goose bumps. There's ….

I've never not been famous..

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal….

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..

I love to take chances. I love first-time directors. I love super-low-budget movies. I've done 80-something movies, and I want to just keep experimen….

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..

I've discovered that Motown and Broadway have a lot in common - a family of wonderfully talented, passionate, hardworking young people, fiercely comp….

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..