My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

There's things that I can do as an actor that I couldn't do in any other form of life and I've got a strange personality. But film requires strange people, so I've got a nice comfy home.

When you look in one direction where Troy's chair was, you could see out through the yard across the street, there was an old cork bar advertisement for five cents. We wanted it to feel like this was real life [in Fences] and that it extended blocks and blocks.

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

I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

When you trust the director you want to trust his or her choices. I don't want to say, 'No, I don't like this girl or that guy," when the director really loves them. No, you want to go with what the director likes.

Got to be who you are in this world, no matter what.