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

[Fences] is just a great play to bring to the screen.

People tend to relax when they're off camera. That's when they should be working the hardest.

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

Put God first in everything you do.

To protect the sheep, you gotta catch the wolf. And it takes a wolf to catch a wolf, you understand?

I remember my mother and father arguing about light bulbs because my father thought he could save money by putting 25-watt bulbs instead of 60-watt bulbs and my mother was trying to explain to him that her children needed to learn to read so that they could go to college. He couldn't see that.