We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going to work until you get it in front of an audience.

That's where you can find things and modulate your performance and give the other actors something fresh to respond to. We've probably all worked with actors who when it's suddenly your close up, they get sleepy. I don't like that. It's selfish acting, and I won't tolerate it.

For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.

I'm a parent. I think we're responsible for the problems that young people have. I believe that. I don't blame them for any of it. I blame us for what we haven't done as mothers and fathers, not sticking together as a unit.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

When you make a movie it's always interesting, because you end up in places you never would as a normal visitor or tourist.

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.