When I first began acting, I assumed an intellectual responsibility attached to my profession, which I had accepted for a long time. My father taught me that an actor had to have a social and political conscience, and that the work that he does has to reflect from that.

The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being.

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

Nothing of any consequence happens unless people get behind an idea. It begins with an individual and they share the idea with more individuals-and eventually it becomes a movement.

In the face of adversity, hope often comes in the form of a friend who reaches out to us.

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.