True desire in the heart for anything good is God's proof to you sent beforehand to indicate that it's yours already.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

I'm selfish, I think. I think an artist has to be. I'm not worried about what people think. I play the parts that I find interesting. It'd bother me more to be just pigeonholed into doing what people think is ethical or that's boring to me. I don't pick parts with that in mind, I just find interesting stories. If it's interesting to me, then I do it.

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic make-up, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

Denzel Washington: I like the collaboration, I like seeing people do well, so I really plan to direct the rest of my days.

[Black people] come into the world exactly like you. It's just that there are circumstances in the culture that are dictated and put on our lives that we have to fight against.