[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.

Hate put me in prison. Love's gonna bust me out.

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

When you look in one direction where Troy's chair was, you could see out through the yard across the street, there was an old cork bar advertisement for five cents. We wanted it to feel like this was real life [in Fences] and that it extended blocks and blocks.

I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.

Don't aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.

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.