You don't build a bond without being present.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.

I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.

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

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.

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.