You'll never see a U-Haul behind a hearse. ... Now, I've been blessed to make hundreds of millions of dollars in my life. I can't take it with me, and neither can you. It's not how much you have but what you do with what you have.

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.

It's very important to transcend places that hold us.

Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.

You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.

So you never know who you touch. You never know how or when you'll have an impact, or how important your example can be to someone else" (20).

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