I was very lucky once I got started with a career. I happened to get some really good parts to play with some really good people to play with.

Forgiveness liberates the soul, it removes fear.

When I was growing up, I didn't see me in the movies except in certain lesser roles. If it wasn't funny, I wasn't there. Then Sidney Poitier came along, and he wasn't funny. He was just good. There's me. So that was my pattern.

It's seldom that you get to work with one director more than once. I've worked with Clint Eastwood three times, but that's the only one that's happened with, simply because I adore his work.

Someone's going to put the clothes on you, and part of being an actor is wearing costumes. Costumes tell you an awful lot about who you are, so you just, it's nothing.

Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.

Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.