I'm selfish, I think. I think an artist has to be. I'm not worried about what people think. I play the parts that I find interesting. It'd bother me more to be just pigeonholed into doing what people think is ethical or that's boring to me. I don't pick parts with that in mind, I just find interesting stories. If it's interesting to me, then I do it.

We do what we have to so we can do what we want to.

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

Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.

I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life.

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."

I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.