I've always felt protected. That's the God's honest truth.

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).

I didn't want to audition the kids so much; I just wanted to talk to them because I like seeing how they are because their mothers usually mess them up with practice. So, I'd rather talk to them and see how they respond. I just throw things at them and see how they can hit the ball back, and Saniyya Sidney was good.

One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.

I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life.

I know, as an actor, I don't like sharing everything with the director. And it's fine if they don't with me.

A part of me still says, 'Maybe, Denzel, you're supposed to preach. Maybe you're still compromising.' I've had an opportunity to play great men and, through their words, to preach. I take what talent I've been given seriously, and I want to use it for good.