Don't aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.

I never tell anyone what to take away from a movie.

So you never know who you touch. You never know how or when you'll have an impact, or how important your example can be to someone else" (20).

[Black people] come into the world exactly like you. It's just that there are circumstances in the culture that are dictated and put on our lives that we have to fight against.

I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.

We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going to work until you get it in front of an audience.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.