My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don’t acknowledge that family is important and it has to be people who are present, you know and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

I consider myself a novice film actor.

Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.

Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.