There is no such thing as homophobia. It is not a fear. It is you being an asshole.

I'm easy going for the most part but sometimes in the morning if I didn't sleep well I can be kind of grumpy. But my grumpiness doesn't have that much to do with my dissatisfaction with my station in life.

Race seems to me to be less and less a subject worth discussing.

I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was Glory.

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

I am impatient with directors who don't know what they want, and the way you don't know what they want is because they want to do one more. "Let's do one more." So, "What for?" I guarantee you there's not going to be a change.

I grew up in the South but I started dancing in my twenties when I got out of the Air Force, and studying dance, you're surrounded by gay guys all the time. You get to know them and you have to shift gears!