The greatest lesson I've learned in life is "Who knows what's good or bad?" Things come along that you really want, and they turn out to be the worst thing in the world. And some of the worst tragedies that you can conceive turn out to be the best things, the exact medicine you need in that moment.

Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it.

It's very important to transcend places that hold us.

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).

You will never see a U-Haul behind a hearse.

When you don't understand something, you label it and condemn it" (94) - Danny Glover, "The Fundamental Things

Hate, hatred for yourself, for other people, will confine you, but love can set you free.