Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.

Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.

Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.

Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

I wouldn't be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast. Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.