Money doesn't buy happiness. Some people say it's a heck of a down payment, though.

You don't have to kill somebody to play a murderer. You have to read the script and interpret the character.

I walk by faith, not by sight.

The secret to a happy marriage? Do whatever your wife tells you. 'Yes, dear.' And breathe.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.

Religion to me is when man gets ahold of spirituality: "My god is right, yours is wrong." Religion to me is the human condition. "If you're a Muslim, you can't be a Christian." That to me is religion.

What we did [shooting "Fences"] was we got young students from Carnegie Mellon, the acting and theater students, and we had them as our understudies. I told them, "You have to be off book and be ready. If Viola [Davis] has to leave you have to jump in."