My ambition from the very beginning was to make a good part for myself, something differently to what lately I've been doing.

It's always nice to anticipate working in something that you know people will have an appetite for.

I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.

You have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for success.

You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come.

[ 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.

It's important not to base your ambition on anybody else's history, but to figure out how best to use your own particular personality and understanding of yourself to help tell other people's stories.