Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.

Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.

If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

It's this subconscious part of me that knows just how far to go, and suddenly, everything bursts into flames.

To give the best of yourself, to be ready to please is OK for a while. But people expect certain things from you, and you have to go beyond that and say, no.

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.