I'd like to film a British commercial; they're better than American ones.

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.

In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.

I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors.

Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.

Love was just a word to me. Until you came along and gave it meaning.

You weren't going to the theatre to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.