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.

In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself.

I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.

Cursed be the ground for our sake. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for us. For out of the ground we were taken, for the dust we are and to the dust we shall return.

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

I've worked with children all my life.

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.