I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.
I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that's, of course, wonderful. I'm really more interested in the nomination than in the award, because I think the nomination just puts you within a group of outstanding actors.
I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.
I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was 'Glory'.
I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.
I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it.
Give me something interesting to play and I'm happy.
People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.
I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in.
My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.
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.
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.
Man is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.