We live in a time when people give up too easy.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.

I don't look back, no. Maybe when I'm older; people say, 'What's your favorite film?' I say, 'My next one.' I'm not interested in sitting around; I just don't, never have.

I remember my mother and father arguing about light bulbs because my father thought he could save money by putting 25-watt bulbs instead of 60-watt bulbs and my mother was trying to explain to him that her children needed to learn to read so that they could go to college. He couldn't see that.

In the movie I realized, I had the luxury of getting to see how the other person feels.

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.

Writing is a weapon and it’s more powerful than a fist could ever be.