No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.

Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.

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

I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they're funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness.

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.

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.