You don't have to kill somebody to play a murderer. You have to read the script and interpret the character.

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.

I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good.

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

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

[Fences] is just a great play to bring to the screen.

You will never see a U-Haul behind a hearse.