You never know how you're going to affect people.

So the desire you have, that itch that you have to be whatever it is you want to be ... that itch, that desire for good is God’s proof to you sent already to indicate that it’s yours. You already have it. Claim it.

We rehearsed for two weeks [in "Fences"], and we taped out the whole house in the front, and the rooms, and we stood it up like a play. We tried to get off book and gave people small props.

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

There's racism everywhere.

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

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.