I enjoy storytelling. I like to write it, I like to direct it, I like to act in it, I like to produce it. I like to be around storytellers. That's what excites me.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

I don't wanna have anything left in the tank.

In fact, I told our dear friends, the Burrell boys, five boys lived next door to us. "Why, we don't see your dad anymore?" "Oh, yeah. Yeah. He" - I lied. I said, "He comes home at night when you guys are in bed. He gets us up and we play." I said it so much that I started to believe it myself, you know?

Money has never been my primary goal.

Being a day player, period, is one of the hardest things you can do as an actor.

I think it's not a question of why, more a question of why not.