If you expect someone else to guide you, you'll be lost.

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.

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.

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.

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

You don't build a bond without being present.