We'll all retire from life at some point. The great thing about acting is you don't necessarily have to retire.

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

Be careful what you ask for because when you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud as well.

Religion to me is when man gets ahold of spirituality: "My god is right, yours is wrong." Religion to me is the human condition. "If you're a Muslim, you can't be a Christian." That to me is religion.

The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. Now that I'm directing, it's all new again.

[Rose from "Fences"] couldn't just jump out there. Not just because of economic reasons but because how she was looked at in society at the time. There were a lot of factors that made you stay I guess.

Acting, it's not my life, my children and my family, that's life. I'll get up every morning, God willing, for that.