If you live in an oppressive society, you've got to be resilient. You can't let each little thing crush you. You have take every encounter and make yourself larger, rather than allow yourself to be diminished by it.

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.

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

One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas.

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise, they will win and the decent people will lose.

The last thing I want to be is a rich black superstar. I just want to act.

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.