My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

Hey, if I don't have a job, I don't know why I bother to get up. Any time the phone rings, I'm ready to go. What else am I going to do? See, I've never retired. I don't even know what it means.

I was a B student in math, simply because my teachers liked me, as an actor.

I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.

Somebody once said to me after I'd done "Deep Impact," "What is it like to play a Black president," and I said, "I didn't play a Black president. I played a president. I just happened to be Black. There's a difference.