The chances you take… the people you meet… the people you love...the faith that you have - that’s what’s going to define your life.

I try to encourage actors to work harder off screen because that's where you find things.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.

It's tricky with monologues, and I never like to use that word. Like I told the actors, you are talking to somebody; there is no such thing as a monologue.

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

I even asked [Saniyya Sidney] why she wanted to be an actor and she said, "I'm serious about this. These other little kids they want to play, and I don't have time for that."

Acting, it's not my life, my children and my family, that's life. I'll get up every morning, God willing, for that.