I just try to be honest and true to the character and play the part.

My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going to work until you get it in front of an audience.

If you don't fail, you're not even trying.

[My father] could see as far as he could see and my mother wanted us to go to college so it was a very real part of my life.