Is listening important? I can't think of a single walk of life where it wouldn't be.

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.

People don't want to hang around someone that you don't know how they're going to react to anything you do or say.

I understand that when Gary Oldman was in that suit [Batman], sweat would just drip off of him where they had to have holes in the gloves or something.

One universe, four forces, billions of galaxies. The precision and complexity of our world is enough to make even the famous cosmologist go just a little bit crazy. How does it all fit together? Is there a single, overarching design to the cosmos? And if we find it, will we glimpse the mind of God?

Never give up the ganja.

My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them.