[Black people] come into the world exactly like you. It's just that there are circumstances in the culture that are dictated and put on our lives that we have to fight against.

I’ve found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.

In fact, someone was telling me that Gladiator was the one film where Ridley Scott didn't take a producer's credit. And it won. But this guy changed the industry twice; with Aliens which was a whole new way of looking at things and Blade Runner that was also a whole new way of looking at things.

It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.

People tend to relax when they're off camera. That's when they should be working the hardest.

What's a celebrity anyway? Paris Hilton's a celebrity. I'm just a working actor.

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.