What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.

Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.

I remember little things that break my heart. We were coming out of Michael's house one day, and he noticed my shoelaces were undone. He bent down and tied them. I almost cried. To me, it was such a gesture of love.

I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer.

If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.

I was going to play in First Blood, but I suggested to changing it and I dropped out. I said to [Silvester] Stallone, 'You know, I almost stopped you from making millions of dollars,' because in my suggestion, I killed his character at the end of the picture .

I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks were treated before the Civil War and after the Civil War.