In the movie I realized, I had the luxury of getting to see how the other person feels.

You can’t break me because you didn’t make me.

A part of me still says, 'Maybe, Denzel, you're supposed to preach. Maybe you're still compromising.' I've had an opportunity to play great men and, through their words, to preach. I take what talent I've been given seriously, and I want to use it for good.

Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.

It's tricky with monologues, and I never like to use that word. Like I told the actors, you are talking to somebody; there is no such thing as a monologue.

In 2009, Scott Rudin sent me August's [Wilson] original screenplay [Fences] and asked me what I wanted to do with it. He wanted to know if I wanted to act in it, direct it or produce it. I said, "Well, let me read it first."

When you don't understand something, you label it and condemn it" (94) - Danny Glover, "The Fundamental Things