An icon means nothing to me. I don't understand what it means to anybody actually. It seems like a word of convenience. It seems to attend to the huge success of certain kinds of movies that I did, but there's no personal utility in being an icon. I don't know what an icon does, except stand in a corner quietly accepting everyone's attention. I like to work, so there's no utility in being an icon.

Never claim credit for anything. 'Cause you can't righteously do that. There's luck and grace and accident.

Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth.

Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.

Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high.

[ Chadwick Boseman] was not a baseball player. He spent, I don't know, countless hours, many months, working two sessions a day with professional pro coaches to develop the baseball skills that he needed.

Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.