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 pray that you all put your shoes way under the bed at night so that you gotta get on your knees in the morning to find them. And while you're down there thank God for grace and mercy and understanding. We all fall short of the glory, we all got plenty.

If it ain't on a page, it ain't on a stage.

Got to be who you are in this world, no matter what.

Even though the story [Fences] is set during the 1950s, some contemporary women might have trouble understanding her decision.

I know, as an actor, I don't like sharing everything with the director. And it's fine if they don't with me.

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