I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back.

[Movie "Fences"] is more than holds up today. We have had a tremendous response at the screenings.

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

Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.

I asked my mother I said, "You divorced my dad, how did you decide? She said, "I decided twelve years before he knew it." I was like wow; I'm learning something new every day.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.