Success? I don't know what that word means. I'm happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody's eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.

I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.

I actually don't hang out with any celebrities. My closest friends are old friends. And my real close friends, none of them are actors.

Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.

In 2009, Scott Rudin sent me August's [Wilson] original screenplay [Fences] and asked me what I wanted to do with it. He wanted to know if I wanted to act in it, direct it or produce it. I said, "Well, let me read it first."

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

I got on my knees and sort of communicated with the spirits. When I came out, I was in charge. I couldn't have acted that, I couldn't have written that.